原忠順宛田中馨治書簡 / A letter from Tanaka Seiji to Hara Tadayuki

A letter from Tanaka Seiji who lived in Takatsuhara village (Takatsuhara, Kashima-city, present-day) to Mr. Kaidō(Hara Tadayuki) who was in Tokyo. The addressee on the envelope is "Tokyo, to Hara Jugoi sama, Confidential" and the sender is "Nakagawa, Tanaka Seiji." It was probably sent around in 1874 when Hara was working at the Ministry of Home Affairs. Tanaka wrote that his group had stopped a disturbance occurred by a group of 40 or 50 discontented people including some lower-ranking samurai in Yūtokusha (a Shintō shrine). It is a letter which tells us a part of the Saga Rebellion. Tanaka Seiji was a brother-in-law of Hara Tadayuki; he successively held various posts as chief of the educational division of Okinawa Prefecture and a principal of Okinawa normal school. It is related to the file No.HA083.