|Part of Shizoku rebellions of the Meiji period|
Shinpūren rebellion. Attack on Major General Taneda Masaaki (種田政明).
|Imperial Japanese Army||shizoku rebels of former Kumamoto
|Part of Shizoku rebellions of the Meiji period|
Shinpūren rebellion. Attack on Major General Taneda Masaaki (種田政明).
|Imperial Japanese Army||shizoku rebels of former Kumamoto Domain|
|Commanders and leaders|
|Kodama Gentaro||Otaguro Tomoo|
|Casualties and losses|
|60 dead, 200+ injured||124+ seppuku, 50 injured|
The 1876 Shinpūren Rebellion (神風連の乱 Shinpūren no ran / Jinpūren no ran?) was one of a number of ex-samurai uprisings which took place in the early Meiji period against the new Meiji government of Japan. The rebellion began in Kumamoto on 24 October 1876.
Following the 1868 Meiji Restoration, many members of the former samurai class were disgruntled with the direction the nation had taken. The abolition of their former privileged social status under the feudal order had also eliminated their income, and the establishment of universal military conscription had replace