however , because of arrival of the black ships two years later , national opinions were divided into expulsion of foreigners and opening the country to the world , and edo shogunate , which was aiming at a continuous policy of reconciliation between the imperial court and the shogunate , brought up the marriage policy of princess kazunomiya with the 14th generation general iemochi tokugawa . しかし、その2年後の黒船来航によって国論が攘夷と開国に二分するなか、江戸幕府が目論んだ「公武合体政策」の一貫として、和宮と14代将軍・徳川家茂の婚姻政策が持ち上がる。
in a very real sense , a background of a continuous policy of europeanization was not merely ' the adoration of foreign countries ' but also the measurable situation of the times , in which the meiji government felt a so srtong sense of danger for japan ' s international status being extremely low at the time , that they could not take time to choose the means for improvement . 実は一連の欧化政策の背景を単なる「外国崇拝」ではなく、当時の極端に低い日本の国際的地位に明治政府が危機感を抱き、そのための手段を選ぶ余裕すらなかったという当時の状況を無視することは出来ない。
