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One Sonno Joi group was established in the Tosa Domain by a dude called Takechi Suizan, also including a friend of his called Sakamoto Ryoma. More on him later. These were the Tosa Kinno-to. Yes, these guys, that’s why they say “Kinnnobu”. One REALLY famous anecdote of this group was that Suizan wanted to gather money to reinforce their territory, so he asked a friend if he had any ideas. His friend suggested that they simply go to the rich people around and ask for money, arguing that if war came, the territory would be ruined and so would then, and if that didn’t convince them, they should kill themselves right there in front of them to demonstrate their honesty and dedication, calculating that they should relent around the time of the third dude they sent to commit seppuku. Apparently, Suizan thought the plan sounded good until some less retarded members of the Kinno-to pointed out that No, What the Fuck Is Wrong With You, so they never actually went through with it.
The Kinno-to were… tolerated by their Daimyo, who apparently thought them a bunch of endearing kids but absolutely did not want to sign up for any of their bullshit. The Kinno-to, being a bunch of hotheads, liked him, but blamed his indecision on governor Yoshida Toyo, the Diamyo’s right hand man, who was an outspoken reformist and modernizer. Suizan and the rest imagined that their Daimyo was totally on board with their ideas but was held back by his traitorous governor Toyo, because that’s the sort of dumb-ass “scheming vizier” story you come up with when you’re a hotheaded bunch of tards. So, a bunch of them (including one Okada Izou) went and assassinated Toyo, much to the horror of their Daimyo, who then had them all executed.
By sheer dumb luck, Ryoma had parted with the group and left the province (illegally) some time before this whole mess, so he escaped being embroiled in it.