The painter and scholar Watanabe Kazan was a prominent and influential advisor for the domain's administrators, overseeing the domain's maritime defenses and staffing appointments, among other contributions. However, he was arrested as part of an [[1839]] suppression of ''[[rangaku]]'' (Western/Dutch Studies) scholars known as ''[[Bansha no goku]]'', and put under house arrest in Tahara; he committed suicide shortly afterwards.<ref name=taiyo/> | The painter and scholar Watanabe Kazan was a prominent and influential advisor for the domain's administrators, overseeing the domain's maritime defenses and staffing appointments, among other contributions. However, he was arrested as part of an [[1839]] suppression of ''[[rangaku]]'' (Western/Dutch Studies) scholars known as ''[[Bansha no goku]]'', and put under house arrest in Tahara; he committed suicide shortly afterwards.<ref name=taiyo/> |