Photograph taken in Tokyo of the Sandai Jiken Kenpaku (November 1887), an early people's rights movement that advocated lower taxes, freedom of speech and assembly, and the rectification of diplomatic failures Papers of TATSUNO Shuichiro #346

Leading up to the opening of the National Diet in 1890 (Meiji 23), the suprapartisan Daido Danketsu (Grand Coalition) movement arose in opposition to the government, aiming at giving the political parties the leading voice in the selection of assembly members. Members of the old Liberal Party were especially active in that regard, with HOSHI Toru and other leaders of the faction meeting at a preparatory assembly. At that assembly, it was resolved to encourage people with connections to the Reform Party to attend a Grand National Convention of Comrades to be held on October 24 at the Asakusa Ibumura ro, and to lodge advertisements in newspapers for the purpose of promoting it.

This report was submitted to MISHIMA Michitsune, Superintendent General of the Metropolitan Police Department in Tokyo, whose responsibility it was to carry out surveillance of the People's Rights Movement.