The Fall of Osaka Castle occurred on 2 February 1868 when the pro-Imperial army captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa Shogunate amid the Boshin War.
Osaka Castle served as the power base of the Tokugawa bakufu in western Japan during the Bakumatsu period, while also bearing historical significance as the site of the 1615 Siege of Osaka, which established the power of the Tokugawa more than two centuries before. Following the Battle of Toba-Fushimi on 31 January 1868, Tokugawa Yoshinobu's pro-Shogunate forces attempted to regroup at Osaka Castle, only for Yoshinobu to desert his army aboard an American warship and flee to Edo. The remnants of his forces proceeded to depart Osaka Castle on learning that the Shogun had abandoned them, and Osaka Castle surrendered to Imperial forces without resistance. The castle was seized and burnt on 2 February 1868, and it was later used as a ground for military barracks.
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