Ikeuchi University

Japanese: 池内大学 - いけうち・だいがく

Year of death: 22 January 1863 (11 March 1863)
Year of birth: Bunka 11.10.22 (1814.12.3)
A Confucian scholar and Sonnō-jōi patriot in the late Edo period. His given name was Hoji, and his university name was commonly known as Todō. Born into a merchant family in Kyoto, he studied eclectic studies under Nukina Kaiya. He became a tutor to Prince Shoren-in and Prince Chion-in. He was well acquainted with Sanjō Sanetomo, and made the most of his position as a royal clerk. From the time of Perry's arrival, he mediated the Mito domain's message to the Imperial Court to expel the barbarians, and was known as one of the four Sonnō-jōi heavenly kings along with Yanagawa Seigan, Umeda Unpin, and Yori Mikisaburo. He turned himself in during the Ansei Purge in 1858 (Ansei 5), but was only given the light punishment of banishment the following year, and was therefore considered a traitor. He changed his name to Taizō and retired to Osaka, but in 1863 (Bunkyū 3), on his way back from a drinking party hosted by Yamauchi Uchidō, the former lord of the Tosa domain, he was slain by Okada Izō. He was beheaded at Naniwabashi Bridge, and his ears were thrown into the residences of Masayoshinori Sanjo and Nakayama Tadayoshi.

(Mitsui Mieko)

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

Japanese:

没年：文久3.1.22(1863.3.11)
生年：文化11.10.22(1814.12.3)
幕末の儒者,尊攘派志士。名は奉時,大学は通称,陶所と号す。京都の商家に生まれ,貫名海屋に折衷学を学ぶ。青蓮院宮,知恩院宮の侍読となる。三条実万の知遇厚く,王室書生としての立場を生かして活動。ペリー来航のころより水戸藩の朝廷に対する攘夷入説を周旋し,梁川星巌,梅田雲浜,頼三樹三郎と共に尊攘四天王と呼ばれた。安政5(1858)年の安政の大獄では自首して,翌年中追放の軽処分となったため,裏切者と目された。退蔵と改名し大坂に隠棲したが,文久3(1863)年,前土佐藩主山内容堂の酒席に招かれた帰途,岡田以蔵により斬殺される。難波橋に梟首され,耳は正親町三条実愛と中山忠能の邸に投げ込まれた。<著作>『攘夷論』

(三井美恵子)

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