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Created page with "*''Born: 1814'' *''Died: 1871'' *''Japanese'': 鍋島 直正 ''(Nabeshima Naomasa)'' Nabeshima Naomasa was the final lord of Saga domain. He met wit..."
*''Born: [[1814]]''
*''Died: [[1871]]''
*''Japanese'': [[鍋島]] 直正 ''(Nabeshima Naomasa)''
Nabeshima Naomasa was the final lord of [[Saga han|Saga domain]].
He met with [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin]] on at least one occasion, receiving the Russian in his own private gardens in Saga.<ref>Plaques on the history of railroads in Japan at [[Sakuragicho Station|Sakuragichô Station]] in Yokohama.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/16673156149/sizes/k/]</ref>
Later, when the newly-formed [[Meiji government]] was debating whether to abandon [[Sakhalin]] Island to the Russians, Naomasa was among those advocating an expansion of Japanese defense of the island - to defend it, and Japan, from Russian encroachment.<ref>Jordan Walker, "Archipelagic Ambiguities: The Demarcation of Modern Japan, 1868-1879," ''Island Studies Journal'' 10:2 (2015), 210.</ref>
A statue of him was erected and unveiled in Saga in March 2017.<ref>Sven Saaler, "Public Statuary and Nationalism in Modern and Contemporary Japan," ''Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus'' 15:20:3 (Oct 15, 2017), 8.</ref>
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*''Died: [[1871]]''
*''Japanese'': [[鍋島]] 直正 ''(Nabeshima Naomasa)''
Nabeshima Naomasa was the final lord of [[Saga han|Saga domain]].
He met with [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin]] on at least one occasion, receiving the Russian in his own private gardens in Saga.<ref>Plaques on the history of railroads in Japan at [[Sakuragicho Station|Sakuragichô Station]] in Yokohama.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/16673156149/sizes/k/]</ref>
Later, when the newly-formed [[Meiji government]] was debating whether to abandon [[Sakhalin]] Island to the Russians, Naomasa was among those advocating an expansion of Japanese defense of the island - to defend it, and Japan, from Russian encroachment.<ref>Jordan Walker, "Archipelagic Ambiguities: The Demarcation of Modern Japan, 1868-1879," ''Island Studies Journal'' 10:2 (2015), 210.</ref>
A statue of him was erected and unveiled in Saga in March 2017.<ref>Sven Saaler, "Public Statuary and Nationalism in Modern and Contemporary Japan," ''Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus'' 15:20:3 (Oct 15, 2017), 8.</ref>
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==References==
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[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Bakumatsu]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]