num_pages: 423
description: Exploring a tumultuous time in Japanese 19th-century history, when the country began to emerge from self-imposed exile, this study profiles activists such as Sakamoto Ryoma and Nakaoka Shintaro, who played an important role in the development of a unified nation state.
language: English
title: Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration
publisher: Columbia University Press