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El [[30 de octubre]] ([[18 de septiembre]] en el calendario lunar; aunque hay un debate acerca de si pudo haber sucedido 2 días antes de eso), todos los del Mibu Roushigumi tenían una fiesta de bebida en la cual había un plan para asesinar a Serizawa. Serizawa fue entonces asesinado junto con Oume, una mujer que estaba durmiendo con él, y también Hirayama. Hirama, el único sobreviviente en el grupo de Serizawa, se las arregló para huir de vuelta a Mito donde reportó la muerte de Serizawa Kamo a su familia. El asesinato fue llevado a cabo bajo la orden de [[Matsudaira Katamori]]. Unos meses después, el [[4 de febrero]] de [[1864]] ([[27 de diciembre]] de [[1863]] en el calendario lunar), Noguchi fue forzado a cometer seppuku por el Shinsengumi.
====Theories====
There have been a number of theories about the motive for the assassination:
* ''Serizawa was too out of hand, so Aizu secretly planned to assassinate Serizawa Kamo with Kondo and Hijikata.''
This is the most mainstream and widely believed theory. It's quite possible that both Aizu and Kondo felt Serizawa was too reckless to be the lead captain of a group was intended to regulate peace in Kyoto, and one who would react violently to dismissal.
* ''The Mito clan was thinking of taking Serizawa's Mibu Roushigumi to the fore-runner of sonno joi. Aizu clan felt this was a threat because they are more pro-Tokugawa than pro-Imperial court like Mito, so they commanded Kondo to assassinate Serizawa's group.''
This is a lesser-known theory. The Aizu clan could have commanded Kondo to assassinate Serizawa because he was reckless in order to hide the true motive; an underlying political conflict with Mito. Aizu was having trouble in Kyoto already from samurais from Chōshū and Tosa causing violence openly in the streets, so they could have wanted to prevent Mito samurais from entering the blood bath of Kyoto. Then, extreme samurais from 3 states (Mito, Chōshū and Tosa) were competing with each other carrying out terrorist actions against those who they believed were against anti-foreigner ideals. A Mito official in Kyoto could have been plotting to take Serizawa's group and make them side with Mito.
* ''Kondo and Hijikata used Serizawa to have connections with Aizu and now that was accomplished they eliminated Serizawa's group to take a hold of the group.''
It's likely that Kondo and Hijikata hated Serizawa in the first place. But, they probably wouldn't have been able to form Mibu Roushigumi, which later became the Shinsengumi, if it wasn't for Serizawa's brother's close relations with the Aizu clan; they allowed him to be lead captain because they were just using him to get connections with Aizu. When they felt they securely had the trust to Aizu they assassinated Serizawa because they no longer needed him. It is possible that they also kept the assassination in the dark from the Aizu clan since they have reported Serizawa's cause of death from illness.
[[Categoría:Nacidos en 1826]]
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