Taro Ando

Japanese: 安藤太郎 - あんどう・たろう

Year of death: October 27, 1924
Year of birth: 8th April 1846 (3rd May 1846)
A Meiji-era diplomat and temperance activist. His pen name was Tadatsune. His father, Ando Bunzawa, was from what is now Moroyama, Saitama Prefecture, and was a doctor for the Toba Domain and a pioneer in vaccination, while his mother was Matsu. Taro studied Chinese classics under Yasui Sokken, Dutch studies under Tsuboi Hoshu, and English studies under Mitsukuri Akitsubyo, and entered the Naval Training School and Army Training School, becoming a cavalryman for the Edo Shogunate. He joined Enomoto's army during the Boshin War, disembarking at Goryokaku and serving a year in prison. He served in the Ministry of Finance, then transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he accompanied the Iwakura Mission as a fourth-class secretary. He served as vice-consul in Hong Kong and consul-general in Shanghai, before being baptized while serving as consul-general in Hawaii. He instituted a prohibition movement after Enomoto's wife Fumiko (sister of Arai Ikunosuke) had a groom break a barrel of sake sent by Minister of Communications Takeaki Enomoto. He was the first head of the Immigration Division in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He resigned as Director of the Commerce and Industry Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, and thereafter devoted himself to Christian missionary work and the activities of the Japan Temperance Union.

(Akio Yasuoka)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：大正13.10.27(1924)
生年：弘化3.4.8(1846.5.3)
明治期の外交官。禁酒運動家。字は忠経。父安藤文沢は現在の埼玉県毛呂山町出身,鳥羽藩医で種痘の先駆者,母は松。太郎は漢学を安井息軒,蘭学を坪井芳州,英学を箕作秋坪に学び,海軍操練所,陸軍伝習所に入り江戸幕府の騎兵となる。戊辰戦争で榎本軍に投じ五稜郭で降り禁固1年。大蔵省に出仕,外務省に転じ岩倉遣外使節団に4等書記官として随行。香港副領事,上海総領事を経てハワイ総領事のときに受洗。榎本武揚逓相からの酒樽を文子夫人(荒井郁之助の妹)が馬丁に割らせたのを機に禁酒を断行。外務省初代移民課長。農商務省商工局長をやめ,以後キリスト教宣教と日本禁酒同盟会の運動に専念。<参考文献>『安藤記念教会七十年史』

(安岡昭男)

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