Ōshio Heihachirō

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Japanese samurai, Neo-Confucianism scholar and rebel leader in the late-Edo period

Japan WritersLived 1793 to 1837 · aged 44

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Ōshio Heihachirō was a Japanese philosopher, revolutionary, writer, and yoriki who led an academy of Wang Yangming school philosophy in Osaka. Despite his privileged status, he led a brief uprising against corrupt officials in the Tokugawa shogunate.

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Image of the uprising led by Ōshio

Ōshio Heihachirō pictured by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

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Shūgorō Yamamoto51.3

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