Japan · Animated schematic fronts

Boshin War

Supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate fought a coalition governing in the emperor’s name. The defeat of the shogunal forces contributed to the consolidation of the Meiji Restoration.

This war had no continuous front. The line is a schematic limit of advance and operations: it summarises campaigns and is not a trench line or an administrative border. The coloured areas are operational sides, not evidence of contiguous occupation; in-between frames are interpolated and closing edges are graphic. The line follows the advance of the imperial coalition from Kyoto to the north; dates have been converted to the Gregorian calendar.