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*''Japanese'': 川路聖謨 ''(Kawaji Toshiakira)''

*''Japanese'': 川路聖謨 ''(Kawaji Toshiakira)''

Kawaji Toshiakira served as ''[[Nara bugyo|Nara bugyô]]'' (Nara City Magistrate) from [[1846]]-[[1851]]. He later served as ''[[Osaka]] [[machi-bugyo|machi-bugyô]]'', and as ''[[gaikoku bugyo|gaikoku bugyô]]'' (Foreign Affairs Magistrate), before killing himself in [[1868]] as the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] fell.

Kawaji Toshiakira served as ''[[Nara bugyo|Nara bugyô]]'' (Nara City Magistrate) from [[1846]]-[[1851]]. He then served as ''[[Osaka]] [[machi-bugyo|machi-bugyô]]'' from 1851 until [[1852]], as ''[[kanjo bugyo|kanjô bugyô]]'' beginning in 1852, and as ''[[gaikoku bugyo|gaikoku bugyô]]'' (Foreign Affairs Magistrate) for a time, before killing himself in [[1868]] as the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] fell.

Kawaji was one of two signers of the [[1854]] [[Treaty of Shimoda]], along with [[Tsutsui Masanori]]; Kawaji and Tsutsui also played prominent roles in a number of other diplomatic events of the time, including negotiation discussions with [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin]] in [[1853]] to 1854.<ref>Gallery labels, Tôyô Bunko.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/35277672813/sizes/l/]</ref>

Kawaji was one of two signers of the [[1854]] [[Treaty of Shimoda]], along with [[Tsutsui Masanori]]; Kawaji and Tsutsui also played prominent roles in a number of other diplomatic events of the time, including negotiation discussions with [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin]] in [[1853]] to 1854.<ref>Gallery labels, Tôyô Bunko.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/35277672813/sizes/l/]</ref>

==References==

==References==

*Plaque on-site at stele erected in Kawaji's honor, at Sarusawa Pond, [[Nara]].

*Plaque on-site at stele erected in Kawaji's honor, at Sarusawa Pond, [[Nara]].

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