was a small steam transportation warship belonging to the Navy of the
Bakufu
, officially , was the title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, though during part of the Kamakur ...
around 1860.
Vice Admiral Enomoto Takeaki
Viscount was a Japanese samurai and admiral of the Tokugawa navy of Bakumatsu period Japan, who remained faithful to the Tokugawa shogunate and fought against the new Meiji government until the end of the Boshin War. He later served in the Mei ...
, vice-commander of the Navy, refusing to remit his fleet to the new government and left
Shinagawa
is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. The Ward refers to itself as Shinagawa City in English. The Ward is home to ten embassies.
, the Ward had an estimated population of 380,293 and a population density of 16,510 persons per km2. The total are ...
on August 20, 1868, with four steam warships (
''Kaiyō'',
''Kaiten'',
''Banryū'',
''Chiyodagata'') and four steam transports (
''Kanrin'', ''Mikaho'',
''Shinsoku'',
''Chōgei'') as well as 2,000 members of the Navy, 36 members of the "Yugekitai" (reaction force) headed by
Iba Hachiro, several officials of the former Bakufu government such as the vice-commander in chief of the Army
Matsudaira Taro
The was a Japanese samurai clan that descended from the Minamoto clan. It originated in and took its name from Matsudaira village, in Mikawa Province (modern-day Aichi Prefecture). During the Sengoku period, the chieftain of the main line of t ...
,
Nakajima Saburosuke, and members of the French Military Mission to Japan, headed by
Jules Brunet
Jules Brunet (2 January 1838 – 12 August 1911) was a French military officer who served the Tokugawa shogunate during the Boshin War in Japan. Originally sent to Japan as an artillery instructor with the French military mission of 1867, he ref ...
.
On August 21, the fleet encountered a typhoon off
Choshi, in which the ''Mikaho'' was lost and the ''Kanrin'', heavily damaged, forced to rally the coast, where she was captured in Shimizu.
Mikaho
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