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Yamato Takeru is a legendary figure, supposedly a son of [[Emperor Keitai]], who was sent both to [[Kyushu]] and to Eastern Japan to subdue [[emishi|barbarians]] or outsiders who resisted being brought under the authority of the Imperial Court (that is, the [[Yamato state]]). He came to be seen in the modern period as one of the heroes and progenitors of the Japanese Nation, and a statue of him at [[Kenrokuen]] in [[Kanazawa]], erected in [[1880]], was the first modern-style bronze statue of any historical figure erected anywhere in Japan.

Yamato Takeru is a legendary figure, supposedly a son of [[Emperor Keitai]], who was sent both to [[Kyushu]] and to Eastern Japan to subdue [[emishi|barbarians]] or outsiders who resisted being brought under the authority of the Imperial Court (that is, the [[Yamato state]]). He came to be seen in the modern period as one of the heroes and progenitors of the Japanese Nation, and a statue of him at [[Kenrokuen]] in [[Kanazawa]], erected in [[1880]], was the first modern-style bronze statue of any historical figure erected anywhere in Japan.

The statue is 5.5 meters tall, atop a 6.5 meter high stone pedestal, and was erected in memory of three men from [[Ishikawa prefecture]] who died in the [[1877]] [[Satsuma Rebellion]].<ref>Takashi Fujitani, ''Splendid Monarchy'', University of California Press (1996), 123.</ref>

The statue is 5.5 meters tall, atop a 6.5 meter high stone pedestal, and was erected in memory of some 400 men from [[Ishikawa prefecture]] who died in the suppression of the [[1877]] [[Satsuma Rebellion]].<ref>Takashi Fujitani, ''Splendid Monarchy'', University of California Press (1996), 123.</ref>

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