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movement was spearheaded by Kido Takayoshi of the Choshu Domain, with the backing of court nobles Iwakura Tomomi and Sanjo Sanetomi. Kido persuaded the lords of Choshu and of Satsuma, the two leading domains in the overthrow of the Tokugawa, to voluntarily surrender their domains to the Emperor. Between July 25, 1869, and August 2, 1869, fearing that

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