Andō Nobumasa

Andō Nobumasa (安藤 信正^?, January 10, 1819 – November 20, 1871) was a Japanese daimyo of the late Edo period, who ruled the Iwakidaira Domain. He was a rōjū in the Tokugawa shogunate, and was active in the wake of Ii Naosuke's assassination. Andō himself was the target of an assassination attempt, which is remembered as the Sakashitamon Incident.^[1]

In 1868, during the Boshin War, Nobumasa took charge of the governance of Iwakidaira, and led its forces as part of the Northern Alliance (the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei).

Incident at outside of Sakashita gate

In 1862, Six samurai from Mito Domain attempted to assassinate Ando at the outside of Sakashita gate, Edo castle. Ando barely survived from the attempt. Rutherford Alcock was impressed that Ando appeared with his body bandaged and showing his spirit as an authority of the country just after Ando was heavily injured.

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References

• Harootunian, Harry D. (1970). Toward Restoration: The Growth of Political Consciousness in Tokugawa Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Totman, Conrad (1980). The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862-1868. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.