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Ikedaya incident | |||||||
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Ikedaya in April 2010 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Shinsengumi |
Chōshū Domain Tosa Domain Higo Domain | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Kondō Isami Hijikata Toshizō |
Katsura Kogoro Miyabe Teizo † Yoshida Toshimaru † | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
34 (10 people; The Kondō group in Ikedaya, 24 people; The Hijikata group in the other.) | 40 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
1 killed, 4 injured (of the 4, 2 later died of their injuries) | 8 killed, 23 arrested | ||||||
Battle ended in 2 hours | |||||||
The Ikedaya incident (池田屋事件, Ikedaya jiken), also known as the Ikedaya affair or Ikedaya riot, was an armed encounter between the shishi which included masterless samurai (rōnin) formally employed by the Chōshū, Tosa and Higo domains (han), and the Shinsengumi, the Bakufu's special police force in Kyoto on July 8, 1864, at the Ikedaya Inn in Sanjō-Kawaramachi, Kyoto, Japan.