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Furutaka Shuntarô was an Imperial loyalist / anti-shogunate rebel (''[[shishi]]'') active in [[Kyoto]] during the [[Bakumatsu period]].

Furutaka Shuntarô was an Imperial loyalist / anti-shogunate rebel (''[[shishi]]'') active in [[Kyoto]] during the [[Bakumatsu period]].

He was born in [[Otsu|Ôtsu]] in [[1829]], in what was then [[Omi province|Ômi Province]]. His father left his village and served under the Ôtsu magistrate (''daikan'') Ishihara Kiyoemon, later becoming a retainer to a [[Bishamonten]] temple in [[Yamashina]], in [[Yamashiro province]]. Shuntarô was raised near that temple, and studied ''[[waka]]'' under the [[kuge|nobleman]] [[Karasuma Mitsutoku]], developing thereby a close relationship with the ''kuge''.

He was born in [[Otsu|Ôtsu]] in [[1829]], in what was then [[Omi province|Ômi Province]]. His father left his village and served under the Ôtsu magistrate (''daikan'') Ishihara Kiyoemon, later becoming a retainer to a [[Bishamonten]] temple in [[Yamashina]], in [[Yamashiro province]]. Shuntarô was raised near that temple, and studied ''[[waka]]'' under the [[kuge|nobleman]] [[Karasumaru Mitsutoku]], developing thereby a close relationship with the ''kuge''.

He later learned Loyalist ideology from [[Umeda Unpin]], and interacted and mingled with other Loyalists.

He later learned Loyalist ideology from [[Umeda Unpin]], and interacted and mingled with other Loyalists.