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the 12th day of the 10th month of Bunkyū 3 (November 22, 1863)
An uprising in the 10th month of Bunkyū 3 (1863) at Ikuno in Tajima Province in which sonnō jōi activists led by Hirano Kuniomi, backing the court noble Sawa Nobuyoshi, rose in arms in response to the Tenchūgumi rebellion in Yamato. The revolt collapsed within two days under attack from allied domain forces and internal division, marking it as one of the earliest grassroots uprisings of the bakumatsu era.
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17th day of the 8th month, Bunkyū 3 (1863)
In the 8th month of Bunkyū 3 (1863), the noble Nakayama Tadamitsu and rōnin Yoshimura Toratarō led an armed uprising in Gojō, Yamato Province, attacking the shogunate's magistrate office. Branded rebels after the August 18 coup in Kyoto canceled the planned imperial procession, the group was destroyed within about forty days.