The Tayama Family and the Turbulent Tatebayashi Domain at the End of the Edo Period

Marking 150 years since the death of Akimoto Yukitomo, lord of the Tatebayashi Domain in the late Edo period, this exhibition uses documents preserved by novelist Katai Tayama's family — including Boshin War records — to trace the domain's upheavals in the final years of the shogunate.