Omura Masujiro
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Jump to navigationJump to searchÔmura Masujirô is considered the "father" or founder of Japan's modern army, and was influential in the establishment of Yasukuni Shrine.
He led Imperial military forces as early as the Boshin War (1868), immediately following the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was appointed Vice Minister of Military Affairs within the year, and proposed the establishment of a system of military conscription.[1]
A statue of Ômura erected in 1890[2] or 1893[3] which today stands at Yasukuni is considered the first Western-style bronze statue to be erected in public in Japan.
References
- "Statue of Omura Masujiro," Yasukuni Shrine official website.
- ↑ Norman, E.H. Soldier and Peasant in Japan: The Origins of Conscription. New York: Institute for Pacific Relations, 1945. pp41-42, 49.; David Lu, Japan: A Documentary History, ME Sharpe (1997), 314.
- ↑ Suzuki Eka, "Building Statues of Japanese Governors: Monumental Bronze Sculptures and Colonial Cooperation in Taiwan under Japanese Rule," presentation at 2013 UCSB International Conference on Taiwan Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, 7 Dec 2013.
- ↑ Yasukuni website.
