Bakumatsu… The end of the Edo shōgunate… No shōgunate goes down without a fight! The Kamakura shōgunate ended with a two-year war orchestrated by Emperor Go-Daigo. The Muromachi shōgunate slowly faded out as the Sengoku daimyō rose to power until it was eventually finished off by Oda Nobunaga. The end of the Edo shōgunate, however, was significantly more complicated. It involved a series of political…