Arimura Jizaemon

Japanese: 有村次左衛門 - ありむら・じざえもん

Year of death: March 3, 1860 (March 24, 1860)
Year of birth: Tempo 9.12.28 (1839.2.11)
A samurai of the Satsuma (Kagoshima) clan in the late Edo period and a patriot of the Sonn-joi movement. He was Nizaemon's third son, his eldest brother Kaieda Nobuyoshi and his second brother Yusuke. In 1858 (Ansei 5), he served as a page at the clan's Edo residence, and in January 1860 (Man'en 1), just after the end of the Ansei Purge, he planned to assassinate Mito ronin and Ii Naosuke with his older brother Yusuke. On March 3 of the same year, he carried out the plan outside Sakuradamon Gate, but as he was leaving after taking Naosuke's head, he was stabbed by an Ii clan retainer and committed suicide. His last words were, "The rocks are broken to their very roots, like a sword for the sake of the samurai's country." Upon hearing the news that the attack was successful, Yusuke escaped Edo with Mito ronin Kaneko Sonjiro and others to Kyoto to further their plans, but was captured in Yokkaichi and escorted to Kagoshima, where he committed suicide by order of the clan.

(Inoue Isao)

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

Japanese:

没年：万延1.3.3(1860.3.24)
生年：天保9.12.28(1839.2.11)
幕末の薩摩(鹿児島)藩士,尊攘派の志士。仁左衛門の3子,長兄は海江田信義,次兄は雄助。安政5(1858)年江戸藩邸の中小姓役,安政の大獄終了直後の万延1(1860)年1月,兄雄助と共に水戸浪士と井伊直弼の暗殺を計画。同3月3日桜田門外にこれを決行,直弼の首級を挙げて去るときに井伊家の家士に切られ負傷,自決。「岩が根もくだけざらめや武士の国の為にと思ひきる太刀」が辞世の句。襲撃成功の報を得て,雄助は水戸浪士金子孫二郎らと,さらにことを進めるため江戸を脱して京に赴く途次,四日市で捕縛,鹿児島に護送され,藩命によって自刃した。

(井上勲)

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