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Sakuma Shōzan

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On August 12, 1864, as he reached the Sanjō-Kiyamachi district of Kyoto, his retainers, a considerable distance behind and making no effort to catch up with him, failed to notice that two mysterious men were following him on foot. Soon Shōzan was ambushed and attacked by a small group of assassins
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Shōzan advocated European studies and maneuvered for the opening of ports to trade. That alone could not be ignored. Further, in conspiracy with the vile Aizu and Hikone clans, he tried to move the emperor to Hikone. Since he was an evil and heinous traitor, we inflicted just punishment upon
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Sakuma Zozan, a scholar of Western learning in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate, was born in Shinshu. The young people who learned at his private school became a driving force in pioneering a new age. The University of Nagano aims to act as a source for regional revitalization and
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on horseback. Shōzan's horse was mounted with a European saddle, and he possessed a copy of the imperial decree about the opening of the country's ports to foreign trade. He was on a mission to meet with a member of the imperial family to explain his ideas and to seek the permission of
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Shortly after the incident, at Tenryu-ji, Kyoto, Kawakami Gensai told his confederates, "It was the first time I actually felt I'd killed someone; the hair on my head stood on end because he was the greatest man of all time."
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is a required course for first-year students in the Global Management Department at the university in which students hear from entrepreneurs, government officials, and others, about special innovations and initiatives.
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clans in broad daylight. Shōzan fell from his horse and bled profusely from the attack, with the assassins approaching him with swords drawn. Shōzan was killed by one of the assassins, a
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to legally open Japanese ports to foreign trade. He was unable to meet with the member of the imperial family and decided to return from his failed visit.
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In 1853, when Yoshida Shōin was convicted for attempting to stow away on one of Perry's ships, Sakuma was also sentenced by association to house arrest (
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A memorial bearing his likeness was erected near his assassination site, along Kiyamachi Road along the banks of the Takase River in Kyoto.
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Shōzan kept at least two mistresses. One whose name was Ochō bore his only son on 6 December 1848. Later at the age of 42 he married
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and the spread of Western influence in Asia, Sakuma actively proposed the introduction of Western military methods to the
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reinvigoration and as a base for knowledge that will activate industry, culture, and lifestyles in Nagano.
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is the name of the student-made, student resource guide at the University of Nagano; and
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and unveiled on June 2, 1959 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the opening of the
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Japanese Perceptions of China in the Nineteenth Century: Influence of Fukuzawa Yukichi
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From 1842, following an analysis of the defeat of China against Great Britain in the
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was erected at the Shōzan Shrine to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his birth.
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Another statue of Sakuma Shōzan mounted on the horse, also named Mr Sakuma Shōzan
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In 1849, he learned about electricity, through the book of the Dutch scientist
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Sakuma Shōzan coined the phrase "Eastern ethics, Western technical learning" (
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On the day following Shōzan's death, a sign was put up at the main gate of
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The Shōzan Shrine was established in 1938 at Matsushiromachi Matsushiro,
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In July 1864, Shōzan and a few of his retainers were on their way to
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in 1854. He also invented electric machines derived from the
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and the establishment of maritime defense, through his book
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A bronze statue of Sakuma Shōzan named Mr Sakuma Shōzan
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12, 1864) was a Japanese politician and scholar of the
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Index

Sakuma Shozan
Japanese name
surname

Shinano Province
Kyoto
Kyoto Prefecture
Assassination
Japanese
Miura Keinosuke
jp
Sakuma Ichigaku
jp
Alma mater
Nirayama Juku
Edo period
Yoshida Shōin
Katsu Kaishū
Sakamoto Ryōma
Nakaoka Shintarō
Hashimoto Sanai
Katō Hiroyuki
Nishimura Shigeki
Yamamoto Kakuma
rangaku
Edo period
Sakuma Ichigaku
jp
Shinshū
Shinano Province

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