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*''Born: [[1809]]''

*''Born: [[1809]]''

*''Japanese'': 竹川竹斎 ''(Takegawa Chikusai)''

*''Japanese'': 竹川竹斎 ''(Takegawa Chikusai)''

Takegawa Chikusai was an [[Ise province|Ise]]-based merchant known for his [[Bakumatsu Period|Bakumatsu]] era writings on the subject of relations with the Western powers.

Takegawa Chikusai was an [[Ise province|Ise]]-based merchant known for his [[Bakumatsu Period|Bakumatsu]] era writings on the subject of relations with the Western powers, and for establishing the Izawa Bunko, an archive based in his hometown of Izawa Village (now part of [[Matsuzaka]] City), in [[Mie prefecture]].

He was born in [[1809]] into the Higashi-Takegawa family; his father did financial work for the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]] and was a student of [[Motoori Norinaga]], while his mother's father was [[Arakida Hisaoyu]], a prominent [[Manyoshu|Man'yôshû]] scholar. He was thus raised within a strongly ''[[Kokugaku]]'' ("nativist") oriented environment. Takegawa later became head of the Higashi-Takegawa family, following his father's death; he took on the name Chikusai after himself entering into retirement.

He was born in [[1809]] into the Higashi-Takegawa family; his father did financial work for the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]] and maintained branch offices in [[Edo]], [[Osaka]], and [[Kyoto]], though the family itself continued to live in Izawa Village<!--射和村--> in Ise. Chikusai's father was a student of [[Motoori Norinaga]], while his maternal grandfather was [[Arakida Hisaoyu]], a prominent [[Manyoshu|Man'yôshû]] scholar. He was thus raised within a strongly ''[[Kokugaku]]'' ("nativist") oriented environment, being taught [[Confucianism]], agricultural science, and astronomy, as well as geography and surveying. Takegawa later became head of the Higashi-Takegawa family, following his father's death; he took on the name Chikusai after himself entering into retirement. He engaged in exchanges with prominent ''bakufu'' figures such as [[Okubo Ichio|Ôkubo Ichiô]] and [[Oguri Tadamasa]], and with their writings on national defense, writing his own essays on the subject, including ''Kaihô gogoku ron'' ("Maritime Defense and Protection of the Country"). A diary kept by Chikusai from [[1826]] through [[1881]] also survives, and has been reprinted and published by Matsuzaka University.

 

In [[1854]], he established a library or archive called Izawa Bunko in his hometown; while many such institutions, influenced by the Western/modern conception of the library or archive, were founded in the Bakumatsu and early [[Meiji period]]s, Izawa Bunko stands as having been, from its inception, intended especially to be accessible to the greater public.

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==References==

==References==

*Shimazaki Sayaka 島崎さや香, 「幕末から明治初期における新聞受容～竹川竹斎と射和村」 ("''Bakumatsu kara Meiji shoki ni okeru shinbun juyô - Takegawa Chikusai to Shawa-mura''"), Journal of Literacy History リテラシー史研究 1 (2008), 1-13.

*Shimazaki Sayaka 島崎さや香, 「幕末から明治初期における新聞受容～竹川竹斎と射和村」 ("''Bakumatsu kara Meiji shoki ni okeru shinbun juyô - Takegawa Chikusai to Izawa-mura''"), Journal of Literacy History リテラシー史研究 1 (2008), 1-13.

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