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Takashima Shūhan

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Samurai who started to import flintlock guns (1798-1866)

JapanLived 1798 to 1866 · aged 67
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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.

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Photograph of Takashima ShūhanPhotograph of Takashima ShūhanDemonstration of Western firearms by Takashima Shūhan in 1841.Demonstration of Western firearms by Takashima Shūhan in 1841.Monument to Takashima Shūhan in Shūgetsuin (松月院) Temple, Akatsuka (赤塚), Itabashi, Tokyo, decorated with a cannon and flaming cannonballs. Ceremony held in 1922.Monument to Takashima Shūhan in Shūgetsuin (松月院) Temple, Akatsuka (赤塚), Itabashi, Tokyo, decorated with a cannon and flaming cannonballs. Ceremony held in 1922.Grave of Takashima Shūhan in Daienji, Tokyo.Grave of Takashima Shūhan in Daienji, Tokyo.

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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.

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Lived 1798 to 1866 · aged 67
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