List of Famous people named Takashima

Here are some famous Takashimas:

Takashima Shūhan

First Name Takashima

Last Name Shūhan

Born on September 24, 1798

Died on February 28, 1866 (aged 67)

Born in Japan, Nagasaki Prefecture

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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Takashima Kaemon

First Name Takashima

Last Name Kaemon

Born on December 24, 1832

Died on October 16, 1914 (aged 81)

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