Japan: Bakufu infantryman named 'Ootsuka Tsukataroo'. Painting by Jules Brunet (1838-1911), 1867. Jules Brunet (2 January 1838 - 12 August 1911) was a French Army officer who played a significant and famous role during the Japanese Boshin War, also known as the Japanese Revolution. Brunet had been sent to Japan with the French military mission of 1867, and when the Shogun was defeated, he had an important role in the founding of the unrecognised Republic of Ezo.