List of Famous people with last name Shuhan

Takashima Shūhan

First Name Takashima
Last Name Shūhan
Born on September 24, 1798
Died on February 28, 1866 (aged 67)

Takashima Shūhan was a Japanese samurai and military engineer. He is significant in having started to import flintlock guns from the Netherlands at the end of Japan's period of Seclusion, during the Late Tokugawa Shogunate. 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.

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