Add to ORKGWe cited as an example the Kotoni soldier village and the Ebetsu soldier village, comparing the detities of shrines in these two Tonden soldier village. In the Kotoni soldier village where many kyu-aizu-hanshi settled worshippedthe ancestor of their former feudal domain as the deity of their village shrine, while in the Ebetsu soldier village, the place of worship of the Ise shrine which is representative of the country unified under the centralistic Emperor system was made to serve as a village shrine. This indicates that kyu-aizu-hanshi for whom the Meiji era started with the defeat of the Boshin War lived vigorously, cultivating the land to build a nation, while still retaining in a new world the sense of identity as a member of their fo...