ABSTRACT Through the story of the Second Kiheitai, a militia formed in the 1860s in the southeastern corner of the Chōshū domain (today’s Yamaguchi Prefecture), this article charts a local perspective on the Meiji Restoration and its commemoration. It explores a series of tumultuous events involving the unit, created in what is today Hikari City in advance of the Tokugawa punitive expedition marshaled against Chōshū in 1866. The article also examines ways in which, influenced by the growing militarism of the age, municipal and national leaders appropriated memories of the unit in the closing days of the Pacific War. During the 1960s, some of the same leaders again commemorated the Second Kiheitai, this time as part of plans for economic expansion in the area. In addition, the article charts some of the ways that the people of Hikari today view the significance of the Second Kiheitai and, by implication, the Meiji Restoration overall, amidst an expansive, prefectural tourism campaign coinciding with the Meiji sesquicentennial.

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作为地方事件的明治维新：历史和记忆中的第二次基平台

摘要 本文通过 1860 年代在长州藩（今山口县）东南角组建的第二纪平队的故事，描绘了当地对明治维新及其纪念活动的看法。它探讨了一系列涉及该单位的动荡事件，该单位是在 1866 年德川惩罚性远征之前在今天的光市创建的。 本文还研究了受到时代日益增长的军国主义影响的方式，市政和国家领导人在太平洋战争结束时挪用了该部队的记忆。在 1960 年代，一些相同的领导人再次纪念第二次基黑台，这次是作为该地区经济扩张计划的一部分。此外，