第一回征長問題に関する松平春嶽の意見について

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Shungaku Matsudaira was an important advocate of the open-door policy during the critical years (1863-65) of the Tokugawa Government. When the radicals of the Anti-Foreign Party, most of them belonging to the Choshu-han (長州藩), were influential in Kyoto, Shungaku strongly attacked their arguments. But when the Choshu-han was defeated and driven away from Kyoto by the coup d'etat of 18 August 1863, Shungaku began to moderate his opinions. In 1864, Choshu-han failed to attack Kyoto. The Tokugawa Government regained power and tried to apply their Anti-Foreign Policy. Shungaku pressed the Government to accept the open-door policy and for that purpose he proposed to hold a conference, composed of the men of the Court, the Tokugawa Government and all the Caimyos. Besides, he asked for a lenient dealing with Chosu-han In 1865 when the Government planned again to stamp out the Choshu-han, Shungaku strongly resisted against the suppression policy of the Government. It seems that Shungaku's opinions about the internal policy were fluctuating during these years but, we should say, it was his political tactics against the Government, in other words, his idea was to turn the national policy toward the open-door and to deprive the foreign countries of any opportunity of intervening in the national affairs.
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