Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · BATTLE SITE · 1863

Bombardment of Kagoshima (1863)

On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “Kagoshima bombarded”

15–17 Aug 1863 — A British squadron shelled Satsuma’s capital over the killing of the merchant Charles Richardson at Namamugi the previous year. Satsuma’s batteries returned fire, but much of the town burned. The domain paid compensation and made peace, then began buying British ships and rifles.

When: 15–17 Aug 1863
Type: Battle site
Chapter: Meiji Restoration and Boshin War (chapter 3 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
Atlas: Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000

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Map showing Bombardment of Kagoshima (1863), battle site in Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000 — BATTLE SITE · REMAKING THE STATE: MEIJI JAPAN 1600–1912 AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA 1964–2000

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Yamaguchi Prefecture: Hagi main domain and four branch domains · Cliopatria v0.2.1 dated political boundaries · Atlas chapter bibliography and event-specific source record · Edo Domains c.1862, v0.1 · Joint Japanese–Russian compendium of territorial treaties, 1855–1905 · Natural Earth v5.1.2 complete geographic reference · Natural Earth full administrative reference units · Natural Earth v5.1.2 disputed-area references · The World and Japan database: official historical treaties

Source details

Yamaguchi Prefecture cultural heritage service. Historical factual evidence; no map or prose copied
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0
Maps of History, citing the scholarly bibliography in SOURCES.md. Historical factual reference; no copyrighted prose reproduced
iao (2025), using Rekihaku village-domain records and MAFF 2015 agricultural settlement geometry; upstream processing by yaoyue00085856. CC0 1.0 · Original EPSG:4326 village polygons dissolved per domain; source enclaves and holes retained. c.1862 is the closest dated reference for earlier chapters; village proxies are not cadastral surveys.
Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Japan and the Russian Federation. Official historical treaty facts
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
GRIPS / University of Tokyo. Historical official treaty facts; no translated prose copied

Domains in earlier years use the published c.1862 village reconstruction, the nearest available source. Tenryo and rebellion overlays are explicitly regional locators and do not claim cadastral or uniform held territory.

proxy: 1855 treaty extent; Natural Earth 5.1.2 coastline · proxy: Natural Earth administrative vintage · reconstruction: 1868 · reconstruction: Existing treaty/event date · reconstruction: Pre1879 geographic reference · reconstruction: Source coast reference · reconstruction: Source coastline reference · reconstruction: c.1862 · reconstruction: c.1862 reference · vector: 1853–1879 · vector: 1853–1884 · vector: 1856–1872 · vector: 1859–1884 · vector: 1859–1894 · vector: 1860–1894 · vector: 1861–1872 · vector: 1868–1869 · vector: 1868–1870

Layer records and reconstruction methods