Choshu

Early into the series, within the first volume, we get some of the basics introduced and just a hint of a larger plot dealing with a group of extremists called the Choshu that are causing trouble in the city and in the country in general.

Mania News Feed 2009

Choshu Riki, if he could lose a little weight would be a decent Rikidozan.

Warner Brothers Developing Tokyo Underworld Adaptation « FirstShowing.net 2008

What follows is nothing short of hilarious — as Nango himself, a Choshu dialect-speaker from present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture in the far west of Honshu — strives diligently to fulfil his commission in a household where his wife and her father come from Kagoshima in Kyushu, and speak in a different dialect, as do the servants, who are from places as diverse as Osaka, Tokyo, Tohoku and Nagoya.

Greek to me » Japundit Blog 2005

In fact, during his first study trip as a student in England, he rushed back home to warn his provincial overlord Prince Choshu about taking on the white man.

Movie: 2009 Lost Memories 2004

In fact, gun-running from Nagasaki was a key factor in enabling the three southern domains of Satsuma (in the far south of Kyushu), Choshu (in the far southwest of Honshu), and Tosa (on the south side of Shikoku) to overthrow the Tokugawa and restore the Meiji emperor to power in 1868.

Hidden Christians, Last Samurai, and Gun Runners « Far Outliers 2003

The twin feudal powers of the Choshu and Satsuma families at last brought to an end the Tokugawa Shogunate.

The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

And yet for all its subterfuge and illicit lines of power, the growth of the non-political bureaucracy as the center of the government found great favor among the Japanese, for the corrosive memory of the privilege accorded the two families, Satsuma and Choshu, still burned like a fire within them.

The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

Tokugawa clan to the clans of Satsuma and Choshu, who have governed

The Problem of China Bertrand Russell 1921

In the summer of 1863 a band of four Choshu youths were smuggled on board a British steamer by the aid of kind Scottish friends who sympathized with their endeavour to proceed to Europe for purposes of study.

The Problem of China Bertrand Russell 1921

In fact, for a number of years previous to 1853, Satsuma and Choshu and other western clans had been very busily engaged in manufacturing guns and practising gunnery: to that extent, at any rate, the discoveries of the students of European sciences had been deliberately used by those men who were to be foremost in the Restoration.

The Problem of China Bertrand Russell 1921