武州多摩
Born in Kami-Ishihara
Village society and sword networks offered a path beyond inherited rank.
Person Guide
Isami Kondo
Trace Kondo through Tama farming society, Tennen Rishin-ryu, Shieikan life, Mibu organization, Ikedaya, and the defeated road to Itabashi.
Life
Isami Kondo's Journey
Edo PeriodMeiji Period
1834天保51849-61嘉永2-文久元1850s-63安政-文久31863文久31864元治元1868慶応4
多摩・江戸
Inheriting the Kondo House and School
He accepted responsibility for the Tennen Rishin-ryu name and its students.
試衛館から京都
Taking the Shieikan Circle to Kyoto
Close dojo relationships became the human core of the group that went west.
京都・壬生
Commander of the Shinsengumi
At Mibu, lodging, patrol, finance, and discipline turned ronin into an organization.
京都・池田屋
The Ikedaya Incident
Martial fame and dependence on political violence grew together.
甲州・流山・板橋
Defeat and Execution at Itabashi
The commander's name remained attached to Kondo through defeat, capture, and death.
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東京都 / 新選組
多摩・試衛館周辺
近藤勇が剣術と仲間を得た場所。天然理心流と試衛館が、新選組の人間関係の根になる。
近藤勇
Address東京都調布市・新宿区周辺
Nearby
- 新選組のふるさと歴史館多摩と新選組のつながりを知る拠点。
- 近藤勇生家跡周辺近藤の出発点をたどる場所。
京都府京都市 / 新選組
壬生・池田屋跡
新選組が隊となり、池田屋事件で名を上げた京都の場所。
近藤勇
Address京都府京都市中京区・下京区周辺
Nearby
- 壬生寺新選組ゆかりの寺。
- 池田屋騒動之址近藤の武名が広まった事件の地。
東京都北区 / 新選組
板橋・近藤勇墓所
近藤勇が処刑された板橋宿周辺。詩に残る忠義の言葉が、敗北の終点と重なる。
近藤勇
Address東京都北区滝野川7丁目8付近
Nearby
- 近藤勇墓所新選組局長の終点をたどる場所。
- 板橋宿跡周辺江戸近郊の街道筋の空気が残る。
Keys
What Shaped Isami Kondo
Kami-Ishihara
Local society and dojo networks offered a route beyond inherited rank. Born into the Miyagawa farm household in Kami-Ishihara in 1834, he entered warrior society through dojo adoption. To investigate “Farm Household and Tama” further, do not stop with a commemorative plaque. Compare the date, maker or former owner, provenance, restoration status, and present location of each element named in “Kami-Ishihara.” Old maps, municipal histories, museum catalogues, document editions, material-culture studies, and field guides help distinguish contemporary evidence from reconstruction and later memory. They also provide a practical route to relevant books, facsimiles, maps, equipment histories, and a responsible site visit.
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Tennen Rishin-ryu
Inheritance meant responsibility for students, a dojo, and a name. By about 1860 he had inherited the fourth headship of Tennen Rishin-ryu and responsibility for licenses and accounts. To investigate “Practice and the Duty of a Headmaster” further, do not stop with a commemorative plaque. Compare the date, maker or former owner, provenance, restoration status, and present location of each element named in “Tennen Rishin-ryu.” Old maps, municipal histories, museum catalogues, document editions, material-culture studies, and field guides help distinguish contemporary evidence from reconstruction and later memory. They also provide a practical route to relevant books, facsimiles, maps, equipment histories, and a responsible site visit.
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Shieikan
Meals and practice formed the close relationships later carried to Kyoto. Hijikata, Okita, and others carried this pre-existing circle into the 1863 Roshigumi journey to Kyoto. To investigate “Training and Shared Life” further, do not stop with a commemorative plaque. Compare the date, maker or former owner, provenance, restoration status, and present location of each element named in “Shieikan.” Old maps, municipal histories, museum catalogues, document editions, material-culture studies, and field guides help distinguish contemporary evidence from reconstruction and later memory. They also provide a practical route to relevant books, facsimiles, maps, equipment histories, and a responsible site visit.
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Mibu Quarters
Lodging, equipment, accounts, patrols, and discipline turned a rough group into a public corps. Remaining in Mibu after the main Roshigumi returned east, the group developed ranks, rules, patrols, and accounts. To investigate “Making a Corps from Ronin” further, do not stop with a commemorative plaque. Compare the date, maker or former owner, provenance, restoration status, and present location of each element named in “Mibu Quarters.” Old maps, municipal histories, museum catalogues, document editions, material-culture studies, and field guides help distinguish contemporary evidence from reconstruction and later memory. They also provide a practical route to relevant books, facsimiles, maps, equipment histories, and a responsible site visit.
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Ikedaya
The incident made the corps famous and bound it more tightly to political violence. The June 1864 raid brought rewards and recruits while binding the corps more tightly to coercive policing in Kyoto. To investigate “Fame and a Point of No Return” further, do not stop with a commemorative plaque. Compare the date, maker or former owner, provenance, restoration status, and present location of each element named in “Ikedaya.” Old maps, municipal histories, museum catalogues, document editions, material-culture studies, and field guides help distinguish contemporary evidence from reconstruction and later memory. They also provide a practical route to relevant books, facsimiles, maps, equipment histories, and a responsible site visit.
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Koshu
Even under another name, Kondo was identified and executed as the Shinsengumi commander. After defeat at Katsunuma, he surrendered at Nagareyama and was identified despite using the name Okubo Yamato. To investigate “Defeat under the Commander's Name” further, do not stop with a commemorative plaque. Compare the date, maker or former owner, provenance, restoration status, and present location of each element named in “Koshu, Nagareyama, Itabashi.” Old maps, municipal histories, museum catalogues, document editions, material-culture studies, and field guides help distinguish contemporary evidence from reconstruction and later memory. They also provide a practical route to relevant books, facsimiles, maps, equipment histories, and a responsible site visit.
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Poems by This Person
孤軍援絶作俘囚
顧念君恩涙更流
一片丹衷能殉節
雎陽千古是吾儔Alone, with aid cut off, I become a prisoner; remembering my lord’s grace, tears fall, yet my loyal heart dies for duty.靡他今日復何言
取義捨生吾所尊
快受電光三尺剣
只将一死報君恩I will not bend elsewhere. To take righteousness and abandon life is what I honor; I gladly receive the sword and repay my lord with death.
顧念君恩涙更流
一片丹衷能殉節
雎陽千古是吾儔Alone, with aid cut off, I become a prisoner; remembering my lord’s grace, tears fall, yet my loyal heart dies for duty.靡他今日復何言
取義捨生吾所尊
快受電光三尺剣
只将一死報君恩I will not bend elsewhere. To take righteousness and abandon life is what I honor; I gladly receive the sword and repay my lord with death.
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