# Takashima Shūhan

> Takashima Shūhan  was a Japanese samurai, ballistics 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 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.

*Samurai who started to import flintlock guns (1798–1866)*

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## Identity
- **Country:** Japan
- **Born:** 1798-09-24
- **Died:** 1866-02-28
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
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- **Profile completeness:** 50.0 / 100

## Sources
- [تاکاشیما شوهان](https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%A7_%D8%B4%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86)
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- [高島秋帆](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AB%98%E5%B3%B6%E7%A7%8B%E5%B8%86)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7677398)

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