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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 then served as ''[[Osaka]] [[machi | + | 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 three signers of the [[1854]] [[Treaty of Shimoda]], along with [[Tsutsui Masanori]] and [[Koga Masaru]]; 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 three signers of the [[1854]] [[Treaty of Shimoda]], along with [[Tsutsui Masanori]] and [[Koga Masaru]]; 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> | ||
Revision as of 21:28, 4 February 2020
- Died: 1868
- Japanese: 川路聖謨 (Kawaji Toshiakira)
Kawaji Toshiakira served as Nara bugyô (Nara City Magistrate) from 1846-1851. He then served as Osaka machi bugyô from 1851 until 1852, as kanjô bugyô beginning in 1852, and as gaikoku bugyô (Foreign Affairs Magistrate) for a time, before killing himself in 1868 as the Tokugawa shogunate fell.
Kawaji was one of three signers of the 1854 Treaty of Shimoda, along with Tsutsui Masanori and Koga Masaru; 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.[1]
Following a fire at the Kyoto Imperial Palace in 1854, Toshiakira helped oversee the palace's reconstruction.[2]
References
- Plaque on-site at stele erected in Kawaji's honor, at Sarusawa Pond, Nara.
- Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937), 376.
