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* ''Birth: [[1802]]''
* ''Death: [[1850]]''
Takano Chôei was a western scholar during the [[Sakoku]] of the [[Edo Period]]. He studied Western medicine under a Dutchman by the name of von Siebold at [[Nagasaki]], and was interested in politics and economics as well.
In [[1839]], Chôei was rounded up with many other western scholars and sentenced to life in prison. While in prison he wrote a treatise on Western learning in Japan called ''Bansha Sôyaku Shôki'' (A Short Record of a Meeting with Misfortune). The book examines the history of Western knowledge entering Japan from the [[Sengoku Period]] to the 1830's. He eventually escaped prison, but committed suicide rather than live the rest of his life as a fugitive.
==References==
* Kosaka, Masaaki. (David Abosch, Trans.) ''Japanese Thought in the Meiji Era'', Pan-Pacific Press, Tokyo, 1958
[[Category:Historians]][[Category:Edo Period]]
* ''Death: [[1850]]''
Takano Chôei was a western scholar during the [[Sakoku]] of the [[Edo Period]]. He studied Western medicine under a Dutchman by the name of von Siebold at [[Nagasaki]], and was interested in politics and economics as well.
In [[1839]], Chôei was rounded up with many other western scholars and sentenced to life in prison. While in prison he wrote a treatise on Western learning in Japan called ''Bansha Sôyaku Shôki'' (A Short Record of a Meeting with Misfortune). The book examines the history of Western knowledge entering Japan from the [[Sengoku Period]] to the 1830's. He eventually escaped prison, but committed suicide rather than live the rest of his life as a fugitive.
==References==
* Kosaka, Masaaki. (David Abosch, Trans.) ''Japanese Thought in the Meiji Era'', Pan-Pacific Press, Tokyo, 1958
[[Category:Historians]][[Category:Edo Period]]