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Shinsengumi | 新選組

The Shinsengumi were a police force mainly comprised of swordsmen of the lower-samurai class, commissioned by the Kyōto Shugoshoku, Matsudaira Katamori. They had won fame after the Ikedaya incident, in which members of a sonnō-jōi cell were slain during a tumultuous time in Kyōto.