Takashima Shūhan
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.
From *.wikipedia.org,
General Info
.
Male
Date of Birth
September 24th, 1798
Age
227
Birth Place
Japan, Nagasaki Prefecture
Date of Death
February 28th, 1866
Died Aged
67
Star Sign
Libra
Social Networks , Links
Interest
Loading Chart...
Lists