Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei

Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei
Northern Alliance
Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei

Standard-bearer in 2006 Aizu parade bearing the flag of the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei
Formation Spring 1868
Type Military and political alliance
Headquarters Shiroishi, Sendai Domain, Japan
Membership 31 Domains of Northern Japan
Official languages Japanese
Meishu (Alliance Head) Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa
Sotoku (Governor-General) Date Yoshikuni, Uesugi Narinori

The Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei or Northern Alliance (奥羽越列藩同盟?) was a Japanese military-political coalition established and disestablished over the course of several months in early to mid-1868 during the Boshin War. Its flag was either a white interwoven five-pointed star on a black field, or a black interwoven five-pointed star on a white field.

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Sometimes referred to as the "Northern Alliance," it centered around the Sendai, Yonezawa, and Nihonmatsu domains, and drew together nearly all domains from the provinces of Mutsu and Dewa, several domains of northern Echigo Province, and even the Matsumae han of Ezo (modern-day Hokkaidō). Headquartered at Shiroishi Castle, the alliance's nominal head was Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, the onetime abbot of Kan'eiji Temple in Edo who fled north following the Satsuma-Chōshū takeover of the city, who declared himself "Emperor Tobu", with Date Yoshikuni of Sendai as the head of the Alliance. Although heteroclitic in nature, the Alliance formed of a combination of modern and traditional forces, and mobilized a total of about 50,000 soldiers. Though the alliance did its best to support the Aizu domain, Aizu was not formally part of the alliance; neither was Shōnai.

In addition, though it technically no longer existed as a domain, the forces of the Hayashi clan of the Jōzai Domain also fought on behalf of the Alliance.

While the alliance was a bold, innovative step that combined the military forces of several dozen domains, it was unable to fully act as a single, cohesive unit, and with the fall of Sendai and Aizu, it effectively collapsed.


Members of the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei

Troops from Sendai, following their mobilization in April, joined the Northern Alliance against Imperial troops in May 1868.
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Domain Ruling Family Province
Matsumae Matsumae Ezo
Akita Satake Dewa
Morioka Nanbu Mutsu
Yonezawa Uesugi Dewa
Nihonmatsu Niwa Mutsu
Hirosaki Tsugaru Mutsu
Shinjō Tozawa Dewa
Tanagura Abe Mutsu
Sōma Sōma Mutsu
Sendai Date Mutsu
Ichinoseki Tamura Mutsu
Miharu Akita Mutsu
Yamagata Mizuno Dewa
Kaminoyama Matsudaira Dewa
Iwakidaira Ando Mutsu
Fukushima Itakura Mutsu
Honjo Rokugo Dewa
Moriyama Matsudaira Mutsu
Izumi Honda Mutsu
Kameda Iwaki Dewa
Hachinohe Nanbu Mutsu
Tendō Oda Dewa
Yunagaya Naito Mutsu
Shimotedo Tachibana Mutsu
Yajima Ikoma Dewa
Shibata Mizoguchi Echigo
Nagaoka Makino Echigo
Murakami Naito Echigo
Muramatsu Hori Echigo
Mineyama Makino Echigo
Kurokawa Yanagisawa Echigo

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References

  • Keene, Donald (2005). Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-12341-8. 
  • Hoshi, Ryoichi (1995). Ouetsu Reppan Domei: Higashi Nihon seifu juritsu no yume (Japanese). Chuo Koronsha. ISBN 4121012356. 
  • Ravina, Mark (2004). The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigō Takamori. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-08970-2. 

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