The Nigori (Mizugori) Residence. Osaka Prefecture Designated Historic Site (1974). Below is a summary of the Tondabayashi City information board in front of the residence. The Nigori family (original surname Ki) regarded Ki no Aritsune as a distant ancestor and served as daikan (magistrates) or ōjōya (head village officials) for the Kanbe Domain of Ise Province. In the early modern period, they went by the common surnames Kita and Nigori. This residence was moved here from elsewhere in An'ei 2 (1773). It has a special construction, including a hidden warrior chamber (musha-kakushi) and a closet from which one can exit to the outside, and is estimated to be a building from the early Tokugawa period. In the late Edo period, when the sonnō jōi (revere the emperor, expel the barbarians) movement was at its height, the head of the family, Nigori Zennosuke, associated with loyalist comrades from various provinces and also gathered comrades in Minami-Kawachi to form a group. In Bunkyū 3 (1863), 37 people, including Lord Nakayama Tadamitsu and Yoshimura Toratarō of Tosa, gathered in Sakai from Kyoto. Nigori and the others also prepared flags bearing the chrysanthemum crest, banners, and arms, and joined Nakayama's group at this residence on August 16. Before dawn the next day, the 17th, after visiting Kanshinji Temple in present-day Kawachinagano City, they attacked the shogunate's magistrate's office in Gojō in present-day Nara Prefecture, killed the magistrate and his subordinates, burned the buildings, set up headquarters at Sakurai-dera Temple, and formed a new government (the Tenchūgumi). However, they were subsequently branded as rebels and targeted by a shogunate punitive force. The main force was defeated far away in Yoshino Village, and the Kawachi group went from Totsukawa to Ryūjin Village in Kishū and surrendered, but they were executed in a Kyoto prison on July 20 of the following year. Their aspirations were realized in the Meiji Restoration five years after this. They were an imperial army that came too soon. Other historic sites associated with the Tenchūgumi include the "Grave of Nagano Ichirō of the Tenchūgumi" in Ōgatsuka, Kanan Town, and the "Monument Honoring the Kawachi Group of the Tenchūgumi" within Nishikori Shrine in Tondabayashi City, each with a monument erected to honor their deeds.

This Nigori residence is considered the birthplace of the Restoration (ishin) in Osaka. The head of the family joined the Tenchūgumi, but it was too early to take action. I don't know whether the Osaka Ishin no Kai (Osaka Restoration Association) has ever come to visit.

I felt the Meiji Restoration.