Tanaka Kawachinosuke

Japanese: 田中河内介 - たなか・かわちのすけ

Year of death: Bunkyu 2.5.1 (1862.5.29)
Year of birth: Bunka 12.1? (1815)
A sonno joi (revere the expulsion of the nobility) patriot in the late Edo period. His given name was Suiyu, and his pen names were Kyodo and Garyu. He was born to the doctor Komori Shozo of Izushi, Tajima Province (Hyogo Prefecture). In 1840, he went to Tokyo and served Nakayama Tadayoshi, and was adopted by Tanaka Omisuke, a Shodaifu (shōdaifu) of the same family. He educated Tadayoshi's children Tadaai, Tadamitsu, and Keiko, as well as Sachimiya (Emperor Meiji). He expanded his ties with sonno joi (revere the expulsion of the nobility) patriots from all over the country, and resigned from his post in Bunkyū 1 (1861) out of fear that this would bring trouble upon his master's family. Together with Shibayama Aijiro, Hirano Kuniomi, Ogawa Kazutoshi, and Kiyokawa Hachirō, they attempted to raise an army when Shimazu Hisamitsu came to Kyoto in 1862, but were suppressed in the Teradaya Incident. He was slain while being escorted by sea to Satsuma. He left behind the death poem, "Rather than watching the unchanging moon while I live, I would rather die and sweep away the floating clouds of the world."

(Mitsui Mieko)

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Japanese:

没年：文久2.5.1(1862.5.29)
生年：文化12.1?(1815)
幕末の尊攘派志士。名は綏猷,号は恭堂,臥竜。但馬国(兵庫県)出石の医者小森正造の子に生まれる。天保11(1840)年上京して中山忠能に仕え,同家諸大夫田中近江介の養子となる。忠能の子忠愛・忠光・慶子および祐宮(明治天皇)を教育。諸国の尊攘派志士と交際を広め,そのことで主家に累がおよぶのを恐れて文久1(1861)年辞職。柴山愛次郎,平野国臣,小河一敏,清河八郎らと,同2年の島津久光上洛を機に挙兵を企てたが,寺田屋の変で弾圧。海路薩摩に護送される途中,斬殺された。「ながらへてかはらぬ月を見るよりも死して払はん世々の浮雲」の辞世を残す。<参考文献>豊田小八郎『田中河内介伝』

(三井美恵子)

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