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Sakamoto Tenzan
, better known as , was a Japanese master of gunnery and scholar of kokugaku. He established the of hōjutsu. Biography Sakamoto Tenzan was born the eldest son of , a retainer of the Naitō clan and master of the of gunnery. In 1767, when he was 22 years old, Sakamoto traveled to Osaka to study under the instruction of . In 1778, Sakamoto published an advanced design for a portable swivel gun called a . In his later years, Sakamoto investigated measures for erosion and flood control. Earning the ire of his colleagues, he was ordered into house arrest for several years before being released. He died in 1803. Family Sakamoto's grandson, , defended Osaka Castle from Ōshio Heihachirō's army of the poor in 1837. His granddaughter, , was the stepmother of Shimazaki Masaki, father of noted author Shimazaki Tōson. See also *Takashima Shūhan was a Japanese samurai, ballistics Ballistics is the field of mechanics concerned with the launching, flight behaviour and im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takatō Domain
was a domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1600 to 1871. The Takatō Domain was based at Takatō Castle in Shinano Province, in the modern city of Ina, located in the Chūbu region of the island of Honshu. The Takatō Domain was ruled by the '' fudai'' ''daimyō'' of the Hoshina clan from 1600 to 1636, the Torii clan from 1636 to 1689, and the Naitō clan from 1691 to 1871, with a ''Kokudaka'' value of 33,000 ''koku''. The Takatō Domain was dissolved in the abolition of the han system in 1871 by the Meiji government and its territory was absorbed into Nagano Prefecture. History The territory around Takatō was ruled during the Sengoku period by Takatō Yoritsugu (d. 1552). After his castle fell to Takeda Shingen in the Siege of Takatō in 1545, it was given over to one of Shingen's sons, Nishina Morinobu. Takatō then came under the control of Hoshina Masatoshi, a retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu, following the defeat and subsequent destruction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osaka Castle
is a Japanese castle in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. The castle is one of Japan's most famous landmarks and played a major role in the unification of Japan during the sixteenth century of the Azuchi–Momoyama period. Layout The inner keep of Osaka Castle is situated on a plot of land roughly one square kilometre. It is built on two raised platforms of landfill supported by sheer walls of cut rock, using a technique called burdock piling, each overlooking a moat. The keep is five stories on the outside and eight stories on the inside and built atop a tall stone foundation to protect its occupants from attackers. The main keep is surrounded by a series of moats and defensive fortifications. The castle has two moats (an inner and an outer one). The inner castle moat lies within the castle grounds and consists of two types: wet (northern-easterly) and dry (south-westerly). The outer moat meanwhile surrounds the entire castle premise, denotes the castle's outer limi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunsmiths
A gunsmith is a person who repairs, modifies, designs, or builds guns. The occupation differs from an armorer, who usually replaces only worn parts in standard firearms. Gunsmiths do modifications and changes to a firearm that may require a very high level of craftsmanship, requiring the skills of a top-level machinist, a very skilled woodworker, and even an engineer. Gunsmiths perform factory-level repairs and renovations to restore well-used or deteriorated firearms to new condition. They may make alterations to adapt sporting guns to better fit the individual shooter that may require extensive modifications to the firearm's stocks and metal parts. Repairs and redesigns may require fabrication and fitting of unavailable parts and assemblies constructed by smiths themselves. Gunsmiths may also renew metal finishes or apply decorative carvings or engravings to guns. Many gun shops offer gunsmithing service on the premises. Overview Gunsmiths may be employed in: * armories by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kokugaku Scholars
was an academic movement, a school of Japanese philology and philosophy originating during the Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok .... scholars worked to refocus Japanese scholarship away from the then-dominant study of Chinese classics, Chinese, Confucian, and Buddhist texts in favor of research into the early List of Japanese classical texts, Japanese classics. History What later became known as the tradition began in the 17th and 18th centuries as ''kogaku'' ("ancient studies"), ''wagaku'' ("Japanese studies") or ''inishie manabi'' ("antiquity studies"), a term favored by Motoori Norinaga and his school. Drawing heavily from Shinto and Japanese literature, Japan's ancient literature, the school looked back to a golden age of culture of Japan, culture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
18th-century Japanese People
The 18th century lasted from 1 January 1701 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCI) to 31 December 1800 (MDCCC). During the 18th century, elements of Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinking culminated in the Atlantic Revolutions. Revolutions began to challenge the legitimacy of monarchical and aristocratic power structures. The Industrial Revolution began mid-century, leading to radical changes in Society, human society and the Natural environment, environment. The European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world intensified and associated mass migrations of people grew in size as part of the Age of Sail. During the century, History of slavery, slave trading expanded across the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, while declining in Russian Empire, Russia and Qing dynasty, China. Western world, Western historians have occasionally defined the 18th century otherwise for the purposes of their work. For example, the "short" 18th century may be defined as 1715 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1803 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – The first edition of Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière's ''Almanach des gourmands'', the first guide to restaurant cooking, is published in Paris. * January 4 – William Symington demonstrates his '' Charlotte Dundas'', the "first practical steamboat", in Scotland. * January 30 – Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans; they end up completing the Louisiana Purchase. * February 19 ** An Act of Mediation, issued by Napoleon Bonaparte, establishes the Swiss Confederation to replace the Helvetic Republic. Under the terms of the act, Graubünden, St. Gallen, Thurgau, the Ticino and Vaud become Swiss cantons. ** Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state. * February 20 – Kandyan Wars: Kandy, Ceylon is taken by a British detachment. * February 21 – Edward Despard and six others are hanged and beheaded for plotting to assassinate King George III of the United Kingdom, and to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1745 Births
Events January–March * January 7 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Austrian Army, under the command of Field Marshal Károly József Batthyány, makes a surprise attack at Amberg and the winter quarters of the Bavarian Army, and scatters the Bavarian defending troops, then captures the Bavarian capital of Munich. * January 8 – The Quadruple Alliance treaty is signed at Warsaw by Great Britain, Austria, the Dutch Republic and the Duchy of Saxony. * January 20 – Less than two weeks after the disastrous Battle of Amberg leaves Bavaria undefended, the electorate's ruler (and Holy Roman Emperor) Charles VII dies from gout at the age of 47, leaving the duchy without an adult to lead it. His 17-year-old son, Maximilian III Joseph, signs terms of surrender in April. * February 22 – The ruling white colonial government on the island of Jamaica foils a conspiracy by about 900 black slaves, who had been plotting to seize control and to massa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takashima Shūhan
was a Japanese samurai, ballistics Ballistics is the field of mechanics concerned with the launching, flight behaviour and impact effects of projectiles, especially weapon munitions such as bullets, unguided bombs, rockets and the like; the science or art of designing and acceler ... expert, and military engineer in Bakumatsu period Japan. He is significant in having started to import flintlock guns from the Netherlands at the end of Japan's period of Sakoku, Seclusion, during the Bakumatsu, Late Tokugawa Shogunate.Jansen, Marius. (2000). Throughout his life Takashima Shūhan was one of the early Japanese reformists who argued for the modernization of Japan in order to better resist the West. His experience was close to that of Sakuma Shōzan, who was also attacked for adopting Western ideas. Biography Early life Takashima was the son of one of the senior administrators of Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Nagasaki and head of the Nagasaki Kaisho, the shogunate's official trade represe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimazaki Tōson
Shimazaki (written: , or ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aki Shimazaki (born 1954), Canadian writer and translator *, Japanese idol and singer *, Japanese speed skater *, Japanese volleyball player *, Japanese voice actor *, Japanese footballer *, Imperial Japanese Navy admiral *, pen-name of Shimazaki Haruki, Japanese writer *, Japanese nativist {{surname Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimazaki Masaki
was a Japanese gōnō, honjin master, student of kokugaku, and Shinto priest. He was the father of Shimazaki Tōson. He primarily wrote under the name of , but later in life also adopted the names and finally . His courtesy name was , and he was referred to by relatives as , the family's hereditary name. Biography Shimazaki Masaki was born under the apotropaic name Kanatarō to , hereditary chief of the Magome relay station in the Kiso Valley. The young Masaki taught himself to read and write with great difficulty using the few books available in the village, often outdated and poorly copied manuscripts, in both Japanese and Classical Chinese. After an introduction by Hazama Hidenori of Nakatsugawa, Masaki became an exceptionally dedicated disciple of the nativist Shintō theology of Motoori Norinaga and Hirata Atsutane under the tutelage of Majima Sei'an, a student of the samurai-scholar Aoyama Kagemichi of Naegi Domain, the first Hirata disciple in the region. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ōshio Heihachirō
was a Japanese philosopher, revolutionary, writer, and ''yoriki'' who led the in Osaka. Despite his privileged status, he led a brief uprising against the Tokugawa shogunate. Early life Ōshio was born as the eldest son in a samurai family in 1793. At the age of 15 he discovered while researching his family's personal archive that one of his ancestors had been labeled as "dishonorable" because he spent much of his time writing in the company of prisoners, criminals, and commoners in defiance of social taboos. This finding was the immediate cause of his decision to become a disciple of Neo-Confucianism. At the age of 24 he read a book about the morals and precepts of Chinese philosopher Lu Kun, Lü Kun (1536–1618) and later studied the works of his master Wang Yangming. Career From the age of 13, Ōshio was employed as a ''yoriki''. Among his responsibilities was serving as a police inspector and magistrate in Ōsaka. He quickly gained a reputation for personal honesty b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakamoto Toshisada
Sakamoto (written: ) is the 40th most common Japanese surname. A less common variant is . Notable people with the surname include: *Chika Sakamoto (born 1959), voice actor and singer *Fuyumi Sakamoto (born 1967), enka singer *, Japanese professional baseball player *Hideki Sakamoto (born 1972), video game composer *, Japanese swimmer *Kaori Sakamoto (born 2000), Japanese figure skater *Kazma Sakamoto (born 1982), Japanese professional wrestler *, Japanese swimmer * Kerri Sakamoto (born 1960), Canadian novelist *, Japanese footballer *, gymnast *Kyu Sakamoto (1941–1985), pop singer well known for his song "Sukiyaki" in the 1960s *Maaya Sakamoto (born 1967), voice actor and singer *Miu Sakamoto (born 1980), pop singer, daughter of Ryuichi Sakamoto *, military leader prior to the Meiji Restoration *Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952–2023), musician and composer, as well as an actor *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese water polo player *Shōgo Sakamoto (born 1993), actor and singer *Soich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
