Nabeshima Naomasa
Nabeshima Naomasa was the final lord of Saga domain.
He was married to Kuniko (Morihime), a daughter of Shogun Tokugawa Ienari; Kuniko died on 1867/3/10.[1]
He met with Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin on at least one occasion, receiving the Russian in his own private gardens in Saga.[2]
Later, when the newly-formed Meiji government was debating whether to abandon Sakhalin Island to the Russians, Naomasa was among those advocating an expansion of Japanese defense of the island - to defend it, and Japan, from Russian encroachment.[3]
A statue of him was erected and unveiled in Saga in March 2017.[4]
References
- ↑ Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937), 65.
- ↑ Plaques on the history of railroads in Japan at Sakuragichô Station in Yokohama.[1]
- ↑ Jordan Walker, "Archipelagic Ambiguities: The Demarcation of Modern Japan, 1868-1879," Island Studies Journal 10:2 (2015), 210.
- ↑ Sven Saaler, "Public Statuary and Nationalism in Modern and Contemporary Japan," Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 15:20:3 (Oct 15, 2017), 8.