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*''Born: [[1793]]''
*''Died: [[1837]]''
*''Japanese'': 大塩 平八郎 ''(Ooshio Heihachirou)''
Ôshio Heihachirô was a low-ranking samurai who led a significant uprising or revolt in [[Osaka]] in [[1837]].
A low-ranking official within the Osaka city government, Ôshio had been educated in a particular strain of Confucian thought that emphasized righteous individual action. Outraged by the shogunate's failures to provide for people during the [[Tenpo famine|Tenpô famine]] in 1837, he led a large number of Osaka townspeople in an uprising. Fully one-quarter of the city was destroyed before the rebellion was suppressed by the authorities. Ôshio was killed in the process.
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==References==
*Andrew Gordon, ''A Modern History of Japan'', Oxford University Press (2013), 54.
[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]