Endō Kinsuke
Endō Kinsuke 遠藤 謹助 | |
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| Born | 31 March 1836 |
| Died | 13 September 1893 (aged 57) |
| Nationality | Japanese |
Endō Kinsuke (遠藤 謹助, March 31, 1836 – September 13, 1893) was a Japanese statesman in the early
Meiji period
.
Endō was born to a Tokugawa bakufu's policy of national seclusion to Great Britain in 1863. Chōshū was desperate to acquire better knowledge of the western nations in order to strengthen the domain in its struggle to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate. Endō returned from England in 1866, just before the start of the Boshin War.
When Sir
Harry Parkes, the British minister in Japan between 1865 and 1883, visited Chōshū in 1866, Endō served as an interpreter, together with Inoue Kaoru, another member of the Chōshū Five
.
After the
sakura
trees planted there come into bloom.
See also
- Japanese students in Britain
- Anglo-Japanese relations
Reference and further reading
- Beasley, W. G. The Meiji Restoration. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1972.
- Cobbing, Andrew. The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain. RoutledgeCurzon, London, 1998. ISBN 1-873410-81-6
- Craig, Albert M. Chōshū in the Meiji Restoration. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961