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At the south end of the park is the statue of Saigo Takamori, leader of the imperial army that overthrew the shogunate in 1868.
The armed forces finally overthrew him in a popular bloodless coup, known as the “Carnation Revolution,” on 25 April 1974.
After 1868 that center grew even stronger, when the movement known as the Meiji Restoration overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate and the imperial court moved to Edo.
In 1911, when the Chinese revolution overthrew the Manchus, refugees flocked to the safety of Hong Kong.
This stratagem was to fail, as the Manchus eventually broke through, overthrew the Ming, seized Beijing, and established the Qing Dynasty in 1644 �� China’s last imperial line.