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*''Born: [[1824]]''
*''Died: [[1869]]/11/5''
*''Japanese'': [[大村]]益次郎 ''(Oomura Masujirou)''
Ômura Masujirô is considered the "father" or founder of [[Imperial Japanese Army|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 later was among the chief figures who pushed for, and arranged, the establishment of a system of [[military conscription]].<ref>Norman, E.H. Soldier and Peasant in Japan: The Origins of Conscription. New York: Institute for Pacific Relations, 1945. pp41-42, 49. </ref>
A statue of Ômura erected in 1890<ref>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.</ref> or 1893<ref>Yasukuni website.</ref> which today stands at Yasukuni is considered the first Western-style bronze statue to be erected in public in Japan.
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==References==
*"Statue of Omura Masujiro," [http://www.yasukuni.or.jp/english/precinct/statue3.html Yasukuni Shrine official website].
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*''Died: [[1869]]/11/5''
*''Japanese'': [[大村]]益次郎 ''(Oomura Masujirou)''
Ômura Masujirô is considered the "father" or founder of [[Imperial Japanese Army|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 later was among the chief figures who pushed for, and arranged, the establishment of a system of [[military conscription]].<ref>Norman, E.H. Soldier and Peasant in Japan: The Origins of Conscription. New York: Institute for Pacific Relations, 1945. pp41-42, 49. </ref>
A statue of Ômura erected in 1890<ref>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.</ref> or 1893<ref>Yasukuni website.</ref> which today stands at Yasukuni is considered the first Western-style bronze statue to be erected in public in Japan.
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==References==
*"Statue of Omura Masujiro," [http://www.yasukuni.or.jp/english/precinct/statue3.html Yasukuni Shrine official website].
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