Kazukura Iizumi

…For this reason, around the time of Tora Nao Tsuchiya's succession to the title in 1903, a movement for reform of the domain government arose, centered around his close aide Okubo Kaname. Confucian scholar Fujimori Koan and agricultural policy scholar Nagashima Joshin, a former headman of the domain and in charge of the practical aspects of the Mito domain's Tenpo land survey, were appointed, and attempts were made to reform rural reconstruction policies, the education of domain samurai, and the military system. In the late Edo period, under the influence of the Mito domain, Iizumi Ichizo, Sakura Azumao, and other patriots of the Sonno Joi faction emerged, but when Okubo Kaname and others were punished in the Ansei Purge, the reforms were halted and led to the Meiji Restoration. [Shirakawabe Tatsuo]…

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Iizumi Ichizo" is listed below.

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…このため，38年土屋寅直の襲封前後より，その側近大久保要らを中心に藩政改革の気運が起こり，儒学者藤森弘庵や同藩の名主出身で水戸藩天保検地の実務を担当した農政学者長島尉信らを登用し，農村の復興政策や藩士の教育，軍制の改革が試みられた。幕末期には水戸藩の影響を受け，飯泉一蔵，佐久良東雄ら尊王攘夷派の志士が出たが，安政の大獄で大久保要以下が処罰されると，改革も中断し明治維新に及んだ。【白川部 達夫】。…

※「飯泉一蔵」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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