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.
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Takano Chôei was a western scholar during the [[Sakoku]] of the [[Edo Period]]. He studied Western medicine under a Dutchman by the name of von Siebold at [[Nagasaki]], and was interested in politics and economics as well.
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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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In [[1839]], Chôei was rounded up with many other western 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.
==References==
==References==
* Kosaka, Masaaki. (David Abosch, Trans.) ''Japanese Thought in the Meiji Era'', Pan-Pacific Press, Tokyo, 1958
* Kosaka, Masaaki. (David Abosch, Trans.) ''Japanese Thought in the Meiji Era'', Pan-Pacific Press, Tokyo, 1958
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[[Category:Historians]][[Category:Edo Period]]
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[[Category:Scholars and Philosophers]][[Category:Edo Period]]