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Mitsukuri Genpo

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in Edo under Udagawa Genshin (1769–1834). In 1834 he opened a training center in Edo, but fires and failing health led him to turn to translation. In 1839, he became the official translator from Dutch at the Observatory of the Shogunate government. He was asked to assist in negotiations involving
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Genpo's birthplace still exists in Nishishinmachi, Tsuyama and is preserved as a museum. It retains the appearance of a merchant house from the Edo period, and was designated as a
153:, Mitsukuri Sadayoshi; however, his father died when Genpo was age 4, and his elder brother died when Genpo was age 12, making him heir to the family estate. After studying 165:
for three years of medical studies in 1816. In 1819, after his return to Tsuyama, he opened a clinic and married the following year. He was granted a stipend of 50
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policy and opening to foreign trade. The following year he participated in the negotiations with the Americans that led to the signing of the
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by Tsuyama Domain and a staff of ten assistants. In 1823, he was ordered to accompany the
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Mitsukuri Genpo was born in what is now the Nishishinmachi neighborhood of the city of
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of the shogunate. He died in Edo in 1863 and his grave is now at the
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in 1853, and later translated the letter by United States president
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In 1856, Gempo became an instructor at the newly established
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Tsuyama
Mimasaka Province
Japanese

samurai
rangaku
Tsuyama Domain
Edo Period
Tsuyama, Okayama
Tsuyama Domain
Confucianism
han school
Kyoto
koku
daimyo
Matsudaira Naritaka
Edo
western medicine
Yevfimiy Putyatin
Nagasaki
Millard Fillmore
Perry Expedition
national isolation
Treaty of Kanagawa
Bansho Shirabesho
Tokugawa shogunate
hatamoto
Tama Cemetery
National Historic Site

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