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*''Titles: Bungo no kami''
*''Titles: Bungo no kami''
Oguri Tadamasa was a high-ranking ''[[metsuke]]'' who traveled as a member of the [[1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States|first Japanese embassy to the United States]] in [[1860]].
Oguri Tadamasa was finance commissioner, and later military commissioner, in the last years of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]].
Oguri, then holding a post as a high-ranking ''[[metsuke]]'', traveled to the United States as a member of the [[1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States|first Japanese embassy to the US]] in [[1860]].
Following his return to Japan from the US, he and inspector [[Mizoguchi Katsuyuki]] were dispatched to [[Tsushima han]] to address a situation in which a Russian ship, the ''[[Posadnik]]'', had anchored for months and refused to leave. After several weeks of meetings with no progress, the pair left.
Following his return to Japan from the US, he and inspector [[Mizoguchi Katsuyuki]] were dispatched to [[Tsushima han]] to address a situation in which a Russian ship, the ''[[Posadnik]]'', had anchored for months and refused to leave. After several weeks of meetings with no progress, the pair left.
Shortly after their return to Edo, Oguri resigned his post as magistrate for foreign affairs, and was succeeded by [[Nonoyama Kanehiro]].
Shortly after their return to Edo, Oguri resigned his post as magistrate for foreign affairs, and was succeeded by [[Nonoyama Kanehiro]].
Beginning in [[1865]], with the advice of [[Leon Roches]] (French minister resident in [[Edo]]) he led efforts to reorganize the shogunate's military after a Western model, and also suggested consideration of the possible advantages of doing away with the [[han|domains]] altogether and reorganizing the government after a Western model. Though Oguri faced considerable opposition at first from conservative elements within the shogunate, the accession of pro-reform [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] to the position of shogun in [[1866]] brought greater support for these plans. Historian [[Andrew Gordon]] has even argued that if the shogunate had not fallen, under Yoshinobu it may well have adopted many of the [[Meiji government|Meiji government's]] Westernizing political reforms anyway.<ref>Andrew Gordon, ''A Modern History of Japan'', Oxford University Press (2013), 57.</ref>
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*Robert Hellyer, ''Defining Engagement'', Harvard University Press (2009), 211-212.
*Robert Hellyer, ''Defining Engagement'', Harvard University Press (2009), 211-212.
*Gallery labels and pamphlet from exhibition "[http://www.mcny.org/exhibitions/past/Samurai-in-New-York.html Samurai in New York]." Museum of the City of New York. 25 June - 7 Nov. 2010.
*Gallery labels and pamphlet from exhibition "[http://www.mcny.org/exhibitions/past/Samurai-in-New-York.html Samurai in New York]." Museum of the City of New York. 25 June - 7 Nov. 2010.
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