Takao Heibei - Takao Heibei

Japanese: 高尾平兵衛 - たかお・へいべえ

Year of death: June 26, 1923
Year of birth: December 1, 1896 (Meiji 29)
A militant social activist of the Taisho period. Born into a merchant family in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture. After working in the confectionery wholesale business, he joined the anarchist Kitafu-kai and then the mining labor movement. In 1920, he published Kropotkin's Law and Power in mimeograph form, for which he was sentenced to five months in prison and fined. In 1921, he joined the Labor Society led by Yoshida Hajime and others, and together with Miyajima Sukeo and Wada Kiichiro, he founded the Kokuhyo-kai (the successor to the Kitafu-kai). In the same year, he was sentenced to two months in prison for incitement in the dispute at the Ashio Copper Mine. In 1922, he was the most vocal opponent of the bill to crack down on radical social movements. In the same year, he traveled to Mokswa, where he met with Lenin. After returning to Japan, he joined the Communist Party, but soon left and planned to form an Ana-Bol joint front. In 1839, he formed the Front Alliance with Yoshida, Ishiguro Eiichiro, Hiraiwa Iwao, and others, and went to protest at the home of Yonemura Kaichiro, head of the anti-communist group, but was shot dead by Yonemura with a pistol. He was buried in Japan's first social funeral.

(Ryuji Komatsu)

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

Japanese:

没年：大正12.6.26(1923)
生年：明治29.12.1(1896)
大正期の戦闘的社会運動家。長崎県諫早市の商家で生まれた。製菓卸しなどに従事したのち,アナキズム系の北風会,次いで鉱山労働運動に参加。大正9(1920)年クロポトキンの『法律と強権』などをガリ版刷りで刊行,禁固5カ月と罰金の刑に処せられた。10年吉田一らの労働社に参加し,宮嶋資夫,和田軌一郎らとは黒瓢会(北風会の後継)を主宰した。その年の足尾銅山の争議では煽動の罪で2カ月の刑に処された。11年には過激社会運動取締法案に最も先鋭的に反対する。同年モクスワに渡り,レーニンとも会見した。帰国後,共産党に入党するも,すぐに離党し,アナ・ボル協同戦線を企図。12年吉田,石黒鋭一郎,平岩巌らと戦線同盟を結成して赤化防止団長米村嘉一郎宅に抗議に出かけるが,逆に米村にピストルで射殺された。日本最初の社会葬として葬られた。<参考文献>萩原晋太郎『墓標なき革命家』

(小松隆二)

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