General Literary Chinese from Scratch/The End of a Rebellion

thumb|200px|榎本武揚 thumb|200px Comment to be written. Background Enomoto Takeaki (zh 榎本武揚) was one of the founders of the breakaway Republic of Ezo (zh 蝦夷共和國) at the tail-end of the Edo period. It remained loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate during the restoration of Emperor Meiji and put up a fairly ferocious fight before being brought down. Takeaki would be trialled for high treason, but pardoned due to his extensive talents in Dutch, naval warfare, and Western science. Text 在海牙府·榎本武揚 乾坤到處吾做廬 酔即喚茶醒閲書 老母不知何慰所 今年又是倚門閭 負笈殊邦萬里身 復迎元治二年春 朝来盥嗽向東拝 鬢髪添霜有老親 在海牙府迎春 五八兄属書 武揚 Questions What themes do you see in this poem that you can derive from what you have seen before? References Kamo, Giichi. Enomoto Takeaki. Chuo Koronsha ISBN 4-12-201509-X (Japanese) 在海牙府 in 泛亞漢文語料庫. https://www.fanyahanwen-corpus.cn/corpus_viewer/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E6%BC%A2%E6%96%87/clean/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC/%E6%B1%9F%E6%88%B8%E6%99%82%E4%BB%A3/%E8%9D%A6%E5%A4%B7%E5%85%B1%E5%92%8C%E5%9B%BD/%E5%9C%A8%E6%B5%B7%E7%89%99%E5%BA%9C