蛤はまぐり御ご門もんの変へん

expression, noun

Hamaguri Gomon incident

Historical term for the 1864 clash between pro-shogunate and anti-shogunate forces at the Hamaguri Gate of the Kyoto Imperial Palace.

• 蛤はまぐり御ご門もんの変へんは、幕ばく末まつの京きょう都とで起おきた武ぶ力りょく衝しょう突とつである。

  The Hamaguri Gomon incident was an armed clash that occurred in Kyoto at the end of the Edo period.