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*''Born: [[1824]]''
*''Born: [[1824]]''
*''Died: [[1869]]/11/5''
*''Died: [[1869]]/11/5''
*''Other Names'': 村田蔵六 ''(Murata Zôroku)'', 永敏 ''(Nagatoshi)''
*''Japanese'': [[大村]]益次郎 ''(Oomura Masujirou)''
*''Japanese'': [[大村]]益次郎 ''(Oomura Masujirou)''
Ômura Masujirô is considered the "father" or founder of [[Imperial Japanese Army|Japan's modern army]], and was influential in the establishment of [[Yasukuni Shrine]].
Ômura Masujirô is considered the "father" or founder of [[Imperial Japanese Army|Japan's modern army]], and was influential in the establishment of [[Yasukuni Shrine]].
A village doctor from Suzenji village in [[Suo province|Suô province]], he was originally known as Murata Zôroku or Nagatoshi. In [[1855]], he designed a functional model Western-style warship for [[Date Munenari]], lord of [[Uwajima han]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 112.</ref>
He led Imperial military forces as early as the [[Boshin War]] ([[1868]]), immediately following the fall of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. He was appointed Vice Minister of Military Affairs within the year, and proposed the establishment of a system of [[military conscription]].<ref>Norman, E.H. Soldier and Peasant in Japan: The Origins of Conscription. New York: Institute for Pacific Relations, 1945. pp41-42, 49.; David Lu, ''Japan: A Documentary History'', ME Sharpe (1997), 314.</ref> He was assassinated, however, on [[1869]]/11/5 by a group of Kyoto samurai displeased with the proposition - which deprived samurai of their identity as the warrior class.<ref>Andrew Gordon, ''A Modern History of Japan'', Oxford University Press (2013), 66.</ref>
He led Imperial military forces as early as the [[Boshin War]] ([[1868]]), immediately following the fall of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. He was appointed Vice Minister of Military Affairs within the year, and proposed the establishment of a system of [[military conscription]].<ref>Norman, E.H. Soldier and Peasant in Japan: The Origins of Conscription. New York: Institute for Pacific Relations, 1945. pp41-42, 49.; David Lu, ''Japan: A Documentary History'', ME Sharpe (1997), 314.</ref> He was assassinated, however, on [[1869]]/11/5 by a group of Kyoto samurai displeased with the proposition - which deprived samurai of their identity as the warrior class.<ref>Andrew Gordon, ''A Modern History of Japan'', Oxford University Press (2013), 66.</ref>
