Okabe Tameshiki - Okabe Tameshiki

…However, they did not create a mobilization organization for farmers, and in May they committed two robberies with farmers, and on the 15th of the same month they distributed several dozens of manifestos for a sports day at Jinba-ga-hara at the foot of Mt. Myogi. On that day, Kobayashi, Yuasa, and others preached to the farmers who had gathered there that they should overthrow the oppressive government and attack the Takasaki Chindai Branch, the police, and Okabe Tamesho, a manufacturing company in Kaminyu Village, Kitakanra County. They then joined several dozen of these farmers who had gathered in Sugawara Village, and at 2 a.m. on the 16th they attacked the Okabe family home and burned the house and storehouse. The farmers then dispersed, and the incident ended. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Okabe Tameyoshi" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…しかし農民の動員組織を作るわけでもなく，5月には農民を加えて2回の強盗事件を起こし，同月15日妙義山麓の陣馬ヶ原に運動会開催の檄文を数十枚配布した。当日小林，湯浅らは現地に集会した農民に圧制政府打倒，高崎鎮台分営と，警察および北甘楽郡上丹生村の生産会社岡部為作家の襲撃を説き，その数十名をひきいて菅原村に結集した農民と合流し，16日午前2時に岡部家を襲撃して居宅と土蔵を焼いた。ここで農民は解散し，事件は終わったのである。…

※「岡部為作家」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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