Shinichiro Takezoe

Japanese: 竹添進一郎 - たけぞえ・しんいちろう

Year of death: March 31, 1917
Year of birth: Tempo 13.3.15 (1842.4.25)
A Meiji period diplomat and Chinese scholar. Born in Kumamoto Prefecture. Given name Mitsuhiro and pen name Ii. During the Meiji Restoration, as a samurai of the Kumamoto domain, he worked hard for state affairs by domain orders, and served the Meiji government in the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1880 (Meiji 13), he became consul in Tianjin, and in 1882, he became minister to Korea, supporting the Korean enlightenment faction and was deeply involved in the Gapsin Coup (1884). After dealing with the aftermath of the coup, he resigned as minister the following year. He lectured on classics at the Imperial University, but later devoted himself to writing, receiving the Imperial Academy Prize in 1914 (Taisho 3) and becoming a doctor of literature. He was one of the key figures in Japan's active diplomacy towards Korea in the early Meiji period. <References> Muto Iwao, "Higo Sen Tetsuiseki"

(Moriyama Shigenori)

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Japanese:

没年：大正6.3.31(1917)
生年：天保13.3.15(1842.4.25)
明治時代の外交官,漢学者。熊本県生まれ。名を光鴻,号を井井と称する。幕末維新時は熊本藩士として藩命により国事に奔走し,明治政府に出仕して大蔵省,外務省に勤務する。明治13(1880)年天津領事,15年朝鮮国弁理公使となり朝鮮の開化派を支援し,甲申政変(1884)に深く関与した。政変の事後処理ののち,翌年公使を辞任した。帝大で経書を講じたが,のちに著作活動に専念し,大正3(1914)年に帝国学士院賞を受け,文学博士となった。明治初期の日本の対朝積極外交の立役者のひとりであった。<参考文献>武藤厳男『肥後先哲偉蹟』

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