# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/takashima-shuhan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:39:42.839Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/takashima-shuhan"
name: "Takashima Shūhan"
slug: "takashima-shuhan"
description: "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."
tagline: "Samurai who started to import flintlock guns (1798–1866)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Takashima_Shuhan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
birthDate: "1798-09-24"
deathDate: "1866-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.64
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.932222666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "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"
    title: "تاکاشیما شوهان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashima_Sh%C5%ABhan"
    title: "Takashima Shūhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashima_Sh%C5%ABhan"
    title: "Takashima Shūhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashima_Sh%C5%ABhan"
    title: "Takashima Shūhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashima_Sh%C5%ABhan"
    title: "Takashima Shūhan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AB%98%E5%B3%B6%E7%A7%8B%E5%B8%86"
    title: "高島秋帆"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7677398"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump