In retaliation for the attack, the Shogunate launched an expedition against the Chōshū.Fall of the Samurai is a DLC for Total War: Shogun 2.īased on the backdrop of the Boshin War period, the new campaign starts in 1864, a time of growing resentment against Western colonial power and influence. Samurai from the clan tried to take over Kyoto (the seat of the emperor) and restore the emperor's political authority, but were repelled by Shogunate forces. In addition to fighting against foreigners as an effort to "expel the barbarians," the Chōshū raised the Hamaguri Gate Rebellion. The clan's dissatisfaction came to a head in 1864. The soldiers were recruited from the fringes of the samurai class, and this weakened the traditional samurai hierarchy within the clan.
Military units formed in the Chōshū clan with the intent of driving off foreign invaders. They were anti-foreigner, and thus pro-emperor. In the Chōshū clan, power had fallen to samurai who were dissatisfied with the Shogunate and sought its end. The clan was located at the southwestern end of Honshu, relatively far from the power of the Shogun in Edo. Ignoring the emperor's wishes regarding isolationism was not enough in itself to end the Tokugawa Shogunate, but it did raise the ire of many samurai, particularly in the Chōshū clan. While lower class samurai did have some upward mobility, they were unable to maintain it from generation to generation. Status was determined by heredity and rank, and there was a massive difference in both wealth and status between the highest class samurai and the lowest ones. Middle-class samurai increasingly lacked upward mobility. Individual samurai were paid via stipends, determined by the military hierarchy. Edicts were passed from the Shogun to the local daimyō (clan heads) who ruled over their territories like governors. Having ruled since 1603, the Shogun was the head of the Tokugawa family who held the position of supreme military ruler.
The Tokugawa clan was in charge, and they ruled from Edo (modern Tokyo) as the Tokugawa Shogunate.
The defining characteristic of the class was that they were career military men, though in function they performed many ordinary tasks from bureaucratic jobs to even farming at times. At this point, the samurai were the ruling class in Japan. During the 19th century, many samurai in the middle and lower class grew increasingly unhappy with the structure of Japanese society.
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