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* ''Birth: [[1802]]''

* ''Birth: [[1802]]''

* ''Death: [[1850]]''

* ''Death: [[1850]]/10/30''

* ''Japanese:'' [[高野]]　長英 ''(Takano Chouei)''

* ''Japanese:'' [[高野]]　長英 ''(Takano Chouei)''

Takano Chôei was an [[Edo period]] scholar of [[Rangaku|Western learning]]. He studied Western medicine under the German doctor [[Philipp Franz von Siebold]], and was interested in politics and economics as well.

Takano Chôei was an [[Edo period]] scholar of [[Rangaku|Western learning]]. He studied Western medicine under the German doctor [[Philipp Franz von Siebold]], and was interested in politics and economics as well.

In [[1839]], Chôei was rounded up with many other ''rangaku'' 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.

In [[1839]], Chôei was rounded up with many other ''rangaku'' 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, and hid out for a time in [[Uwajima han]], and then in the Aoyama neighborhood of [[Edo]], but when he was found again by shogunate officials, he committed suicide rather than be captured again.

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