Iwase Repair - Iwase Shuri

...A politician and diplomat in the late Edo period. Commonly known as Shuri. Called Iga no Kami and Higo no Kami, his pen name was Oudokoro. The third son of the hatamoto Shitara Sadatake. He was adopted into the hatamoto Iwase family. In 1851 (Kaei 4), he became a professor at Shohei Academy. In 1854, he was selected by Abe Masahiro to become a metsuke, and in the same year was ordered to be in charge of military system reform, and was involved in the construction of Shinagawa Battery, the establishment of the Kobusho and the Bansho Shirabesho. When the Russian envoy Putyatin arrived in Japan, he participated in the negotiations to amend the Treaty of Peace and Amity between Japan and Russia, and then in 1857 (Ansei 4), he negotiated and signed the Japan-Netherlands and Japan-Russia Additional Treaties. ...

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…幕末の政治家，外交家。通称は修理。伊賀守，肥後守を称し，号は鷗処など。旗本設楽貞丈の三男。旗本岩瀬家の養子となる。1851年(嘉永4)昌平黌教授となった。54年，阿部正弘に抜擢されて目付となり，同年軍制改正用掛を命じられ，品川台場築造や講武所，蕃書調所の設立などに当たった。ロシア使節プチャーチンの来航に際して，日露和親条約修正交渉に加わり，次いで57年(安政4)日蘭･日露追加条約の交渉に当たり，調印した。…

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