Saga Rebellion

Saga Rebellion
Part of the Shizoku rebellions of the Meiji period

An ukiyo-e of the Saga Rebellion
Date16 February 1874 – 9 April 1874
Location
Saga Prefecture
Result Government victory; rebellion crushed
Belligerents

Meiji Government

Imperial Japanese Army

Imperial Japanese Navy		 Rebels of former Saga Domain
Commanders and leaders

Ōkubo Toshimichi

Prince Komatsu Akihito

Shizuo Nozu

Yamada Akiyoshi

Etō Shinpei †

Shima Yoshitake †

Hisatake Asakura †
Strength

c. 5000 soldiers and policemen [1]

c. 5000 shizoku volunteers [2]

11,000 Saga rebels

3,000 members of the Seikantō Party & Ugoku League
Casualties and losses

147 killed

209 wounded

173 killed

160 wounded

Other leaders were executed in Nagasaki Prison

The Saga Rebellion (佐賀の乱, Saga no ran) was an 1874 uprising in Kyūshū against the new Meiji government of Japan.[3] It was led by Etō Shinpei and Shima Yoshitake in their native domain of Hizen.

  1. ^ Jaundrill, D. Colin (2016). Samurai to Soldier: Remaking Military Service in Nineteenth-Century Japan, pp. 131-2.
  2. ^ Vlastos, Steven. "Opposition movements in early Meiji, 1868-1885", p. 390, in Jansen, Marius (ed.) (1989), The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 5: The Nineteenth Century
  3. ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Saga no ran" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 804, p. 804, at Google Books.