Sansei Eguchi

A Meiji-era politician and freedom and civil rights activist. Born in Tosa (Kochi Prefecture). He first studied at Risshigakusha, an educational institution established by Itagaki Taisuke and others, and then moved to Tokyo to study languages, politics, economics, and other subjects, and became a leading figure in the left wing of the Liberal Party. During the Daido Danchi Movement, he was involved in the Osaka Club's newspaper, Shinonome Shimbun (first published in January 1888), and worked on the newspaper Jiyu (a newspaper of the Constitutional Liberal Party renamed Jiyu Shimbun by Itagaki and others) that was first published in April 1891 (Meiji 24). He ran in the second general election of 1892 from Kochi Prefecture under the name Komatsu Sansei and was elected, and was also elected in the third and fourth general elections. However, he rebelled against the party's compromise with power, and moved to Sapporo in 1900 (Meiji 33), where he died. He also wrote and translated many books, and his translation of Henry George's Social Questions (1892) in particular had an influence on party policies.

[Takaaki Ikai]

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明治時代の政治家、自由民権運動家。土佐（高知県）出身。初め板垣退助(たいすけ)らの立志社が開発した教育機関立志学舎で学び、その後上京して語学、政治学、経済学などを修め、自由党左派の指導的立場にたった。また大同団結運動の時期には大阪倶楽部(くらぶ)の機関紙『東雲(しののめ)新聞』（1888年1月創刊）にかかわり、1891年（明治24）4月創刊の『自由』（立憲自由党の機関紙『自由新聞』を板垣らが改題したもの）の社務にあたった。1892年の第2回総選挙に小松三省の名で高知県から立候補し当選、第3回、第4回の総選挙にも当選した。しかし、党の権力への妥協の姿勢に反発して1900年（明治33）札幌に渡り、没した。著訳書も多く、とくにヘンリー・ジョージの訳書『社会問題』（1892）は党の政策にも影響を与えた。

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