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Yoshida Shōin

1830–1859 · 19th century · Also known as Yoshida Shoin

Yoshida Shōin (1830–1859) was a samurai teacher and thinker of the Chōshū domain. He tried to stow away on one of Commodore Perry's ships in 1854 to study the West and was imprisoned. At his small school at Hagi, the Shōka Sonjuku, he taught many future leaders of the Meiji Restoration, among them Itō Hirobumi and Takasugi Shinsaku, in loyalty to the emperor. He was executed in the Ansei Purge in 1859.

Yoshida Shōin
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Choshu Domain

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