Background
Ando Nobumasa was born in 1819.
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Ando Nobumasa
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Career
He became Commissioner of Shrines and Temples in succession to Naosuke Ii (1853). Appointed a Koju, or Minister in the Shogunatt (1860). An able administrator in the critical period of the Shogunate, he tried to bring about a union between the Tokugawas and the Imperial Family through the marriage between Princess Kazunomiya, a daughter of Emperor Ninlco and Shogun Iemochi. He planned to forge a new foreign policy on the strength of the union. The plan miscarried, however, when he was ambushed and wounded by anti-foreign elements in January, 1862, near the Sakashita-mon Gate of the Yedo Castle (the Sakashita-mon Affair). In August the same year, he was forced to resign for his alleged involvement in the assassination of Naosuke Ii. At the Meiji Restoration of the Imperial regime in 1868, he fought the Imperial forces in North-eastern Japan but was defeated
