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| * Japanese: トマス グラバー ''(Thomas Glover)'' | | * Japanese: トマス グラバー ''(Thomas Glover)'' |
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− | | + | Thomas Glover was a Scottish trader who provided arms and assistance to the anti-[[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa]] ''[[han]]'' of [[Choshu han|Chôshû]] through his [[Nagasaki]]-based trading company. [[Sakamoto Ryoma]] purchased arms with funds provided by [[Satsuma han|Satsuma]] for the venture. Glover also arranged for Japanese to study abroad in the United Kingdom, and sold Satsuma a steamship in [[1863]]/2, adding to the British steamships purchased by the domain in late [[1860]], and in late [[1862]].<ref>Robert Hellyer, ''Defining Engagement'', Harvard University Press (2009), 188, 194.</ref> Operating as an agent of the Chinese-based Jardine, Matheson & Company, he competed in [[1863]]-[[1864]] with the American [[Eugene Van Reed]], a merchant with the [[Yokohama]] branch of the [[Canton]]-based [[Augustine Heard & Company]], for privileged status in trade with Satsuma.<ref>Hellyer, 198.</ref> |
− | A Scottish trader who provided arms and assistance to the anti-[[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]] han of [[Choshu]] through his [[Nagasaki]]-based trading company. [[Sakamoto Ryoma]] purchased arms with funds provided by [[Satsuma province|Satsuma]] for the venture. Glover also arranged for Japanese to study abroad in the UK.
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
| * [[Romulus Hillsborough|Hillsborough, Romulus]]. ''RYOMA- Life of a Renaissance Samurai''. Ridgeback Press, 1999 | | * [[Romulus Hillsborough|Hillsborough, Romulus]]. ''RYOMA- Life of a Renaissance Samurai''. Ridgeback Press, 1999 |
| * Jansen, Marius B. ''Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration''. Columbia University Press, 1994. | | * Jansen, Marius B. ''Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration''. Columbia University Press, 1994. |
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