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The Teradaya inn in Fushimi is indispensable to the history of the late Edo period, known as the site of the Teradaya Incident (1862) and the Sakamoto Ryoma attack (1866). The Teradaya Disturbance — in which nine radical Satsuma patriots killed one another in a factional clash — and the episode in which Ryoma escaped danger while bathing thanks to his companion Oryo's quick thinking are among the …

Teradaya was a boat inn operating in Fushimi during the late Edo period and became the site of two pivotal incidents in Japanese history. In 1862, a violent clash erupted within the Satsuma domain when loyalist officials confronted a group of radical activists planning an armed uprising in Kyoto. Ni…