The Shinsengumi & the Ikedaya Incident

The Famed Shinsengumi Attack and the History of the Ikedaya

The Ikedaya Incident, in which members of the Shinsengumi, the Tokugawa Shogunate’s special police forces, attacked and killed suspected anti-Tokugawa activists thwarting their supposed plans to torch Kyoto, took place on July 8, 1864.