Aoshima Toshizo - Aoshima Toshizo

...In 1885, on the recommendation of Toshiaki, he became the leader of the shogunate's Ezochi survey party, and over the next year he surveyed Kunashiri and Etorofu islands, then traveled to Uruppu Island. In 1889 (Kansei 1), he traveled to Matsumae with the shogunate's spy Aoshima Shunzo and others to investigate an Ainu uprising in the Kunashiri and Menashi regions, but when Aoshima was punished for giving advice to the Matsumae clan, he was unfortunately implicated and imprisoned. Later, the suspicion was cleared and he was appointed as a construction officer and construction officer, and he explored the southern Kuril Islands in 1891 and Sakhalin in 1892. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Aoshima Shunzo" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…85年利明の推薦で幕府の蝦夷地調査一行の竿取となり，翌年にかけて国後（くなしり）島，択捉（えとろふ）島を調査し，ついでウルップ島に渡った。89年(寛政1)国後，目梨地方のアイヌの蜂起調査のため幕府の密偵青島俊蔵らと松前に渡ったが，青島が松前藩に助言を与えたかどにより処罰された際，不運にも連座して投獄された。のち疑いが晴れて普請役下役，普請役に取り立てられ，91年に南千島，92年に樺太(サハリン)を探検した。…

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