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Yoshida Shōin

Japanese teacher
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Sept. 20, 1830, Nagato province [now in Yamato prefecture], Japan
Died:
Nov. 21, 1859, Edo [now Tokyo] (aged 29, died on this day)
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Yoshida Shōin (born Sept. 20, 1830, Nagato province [now in Yamato prefecture], Japan—died Nov. 21, 1859, Edo [now Tokyo]) was a Japanese teacher of military tactics in the domain of Chōshū. He studied “Dutch learning” (European studies) in Nagasaki and Edo and was deeply influenced by the pro-emperor thinkers in the domain of Mito. His radical pro-emperor stance influenced young samurai in Chōshū to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate. He was executed for an assassination plot against the shogun’s representative in Kyōto. See also Kido Takayoshi; Tokugawa period.

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