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    Yoshida Shōin (吉田松陰, born Sugi Toranosuke (杉 寅之助); September 20, 1830 – November 21, 1859), commonly named Torajirō (寅次郎), was one of Japan's most distinguished...
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    Yamaguchi. Shōka Sonjuku is inside a shrine: Shōin Jinja (also Shōin Shrine). Shōin Shrine was built for Yoshida Shōin, to memorialize the leading figure of...
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    under Yoshida Shōin, as had a friend of his brother's for some time. Upon returning to Hagi he wrote Shōin, and with the help of a friend of Shōin's, Tsuchiya...
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    Shōin Shrine (松陰神社, Shōin Jinja), located in Setagaya, Tokyo, is the Shinto shrine that is dedicated to the deified spirit of Yoshida Shōin, an activist...
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  • Yoshida (bureaucrat) (吉田 茂, 1885–1954), Japanese diplomat and politician Shintaro Yoshida (由田 慎太郎, born 1981), Japanese baseball player Yoshida Shōin...
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    and he became the teacher of several future leaders of modernization (Yoshida Shōin, Katsu Kaishū, Sakamoto Ryōma, Nakaoka Shintarō, Hashimoto Sanai, Katō...
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  • younger sister of Yoshida Shōin. Mao Inoue as Sugi Fumi (later Katori Miwako) Momoka Yamada as young Fumi Yusuke Iseya as Yoshida Shōin, Shishi of Bakumatsu...
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  • Mito. Takechi was particular interested in the teachings of Chōshū Yoshida Shōin as relayed to him by Kusaka. Increasingly concerned by the lack of action...
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  • scholar Yoshida Shōin of Chōshū. He founded the Shokason-juku school, and educated many of the future government leaders of Meiji era Japan. Yoshida had connections...
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    despite the will expressed by the Imperial court was taken as evidence by Yoshida Shōin and other anti-Tokugawa leaders that the sonnō (revere the Emperor)...
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    imperial councillors. Kido Koin (1833–77), a native of Chōshū, student of Yoshida Shōin, and conspirator with Ōkubo and Saigō, became minister of education...
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    executed here.[citation needed] Those executed include Hashimoto Sanai and Yoshida Shōin, who were executed as a result of the Ansei Purge. Sugita Genpaku, Nakagawa...
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    there. Other natives famous for their role in the restoration include Yoshida Shōin, Takasugi Shinsaku, and Kusaka Genzui among others. The Japanese battleship...
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    California Press, 1970), "Introduction", pp. 1–46; on Yoshida: chapter IV "The Culture of Action – Yoshida Shōin", pp. 184–219. Jansen, Marius B.; Gilbert Rozman...
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  • cadet branch of Sasaki clan who descended from Uda Genji; famous for Yoshida Shōin. Suwa clan (諏訪氏) – more or less unknown ancestors, many believed Suwa...
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    music, art, speech, wisdom, learning, and patron of the Intelligentsia. Yoshida Shōin: Deified intellectual, like Sugawara no Michizane. Kui Xing: Chinese...
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    private school of Yoshida Shōin. Takasugi devoted himself to the modernization of Chōshū's military, and became a favorite student of Yoshida. In 1858, he...
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    election. He earned the nickname "New Shōin" or "Shōwa Shōin" in honor of the earlier leader from Yamaguchi, Yoshida Shōin. In the 1942 general election, he...
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  • in Kyoto. Victims of the purge included the following: Death Penalty Yoshida Shōin Hashimoto Sanai Permanent house arrest Mito Nariaki Nagai Naoyuki Prince...
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    Meiji Restoration. He went to Shokasonjuku, a private school run by Yoshida Shōin, where he was active in the growing underground movement to overthrow...
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    Japan as a modernised nation at the beginning of the 20th century. Yoshida Shōin, influential Japanese intellectual and Meiji reformer, said Wei's Treatise...
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    father in order to be educated at Shōka Sonjuku in 1849, the academy of Yoshida Shōin, from whom he adopted the philosophy of Imperial loyalism. In 1851,...
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    ultimately placing Nariaki and Yoshinobu under house arrest, and executing Yoshida Shōin (1830–1859, a leading sonnō-jōi intellectual who had opposed the American...
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  • Kaoru (1836–1915) Katsumata: anachronistically based on Yoshida Shōin, though the real-life Yoshida had been executed in 1859, three years prior to the events...
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    (2012) Onna Nobunaga (2013) – Hashiba Hideyoshi Hana Moyu (2015) – Yoshida Shōin Prison's Princess (2017) – Gorō Itabashi Voice: 110 Emergency Control...
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    Iwami in blue, and Aki in pink Heishin-maru (丙辰丸) Yoshida Shōin Zeppitsu or "last writing" of Yoshida Shōin Meeting of Vice-Admiral George King, Mōri Takachika...
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    was a member of the Hayashi clan of Owari (尾張林氏). He was a student of Yoshida Shōin at the Shōka Sonjuku and later joined the Sonnō jōi movement ("to revere...
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  • Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) civil rights activist for black people Yoshida Shōin (1830–1859) distinguished intellectual in the closing days of the Tokugawa...
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    Mito. Takechi was particular interested in the teachings of Chōshū Yoshida Shōin as relayed to him by Kusaka. Increasingly concerned by the lack of action...
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    date of execution (after the adoption of the Gregorian calendar) of Yoshida Shōin (吉田松陰), whom Mishima respected, or that Mishima had set his period of...
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