Kokichi Ukai - Gargle・Koukichi

Japanese: 鵜飼幸吉 - うがい・こうきち

Year of death: August 22, 6th year of Ansei (September 18, 1859)
Year of birth: Bunsei 11 (1828)
A Mito feudal samurai executed in the Ansei Purge. His given name was Tomoyoshi, later Tomoaki. He was commonly known as Kikujiro, later Kokichi. His father was Ukai Kichizaemon, and his mother was the eldest son of Sasaki. He studied the Mito domain's unique Shinpatsu-ryu artillery, and was awarded for his dedication to martial arts in 1855 and 1856. In February 1857, he became a member of the Koju-nin-gumi, an assistant to the Kyoto residence office, and in 1858, he became the assistant Kyoto residence office's assistant, helping his father, who was the Kyoto residence office. While in Tokyo, he associated with patriots and court nobles, and advocated Sonno Joi. In August 1860, he took the name Oze Denzaemon and carried the secret imperial edict of Bogo, which had been issued to the Mito domain in order to overthrow the government of Ii Naosuke, who had concluded the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between the United States and Japan, to the Mito domain's Edo residence on behalf of his father. He was sentenced to death and executed on charges of conspiring to have the secret imperial edict transmitted. He is said to have sneered when the sentence was handed down.

(Masahiko Yoshida)

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

Japanese:

没年：安政6.8.22(1859.9.18)
生年：文政11(1828)
安政大獄で刑死した水戸藩士。諱は,知好,のち知明。通称は菊次郎,のちに幸吉。父鵜飼吉左衛門,母佐々木氏の長男。水戸藩独自の神発流砲術を学び安政2(1855)年,3年に武芸出精で表彰された。同3年2月,小十人組,京都留守居役手添,同4年京都留守居助役となり,京都留守居役の父を助けた。在京中は,志士や公家と交わり尊攘を唱えた。5年8月,日米修好通商条約を締結した井伊直弼政権打倒のために水戸藩に下された戊午の密勅を小瀬伝左衛門と変名し父に代わって江戸水戸藩邸に運んだ。密勅降下工作などのかどで死罪,獄門。刑宣告の際,冷笑したという。

(吉田昌彦)

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