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Kuroda Nagahiro

1811–1887 · 19th century

Kuroda Nagahiro was daimyo of the Fukuoka domain in northern Kyushu from 1834 to 1869. Born into the Shimazu family of Satsuma and adopted by the Kuroda, he promoted Western learning, studying Dutch science and encouraging military and industrial improvements connected with the domain's duty of guarding Nagasaki. During the 1860s he tried to mediate between the shogunate and the anti-shogunate domains.

Kuroda Nagahiro
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Fukuoka Domain

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