Matsumoto Keido - Matsumoto Keido

A patriot of the late Edo period. The second son of Innami Koreshige, a servant of the Kariya Domain in Mikawa Province (Aichi Prefecture). He was raised by the Matsumoto family. His name was originally Mosei, later Kore, and he was commonly known as Kenzaburo, and his pen name was Keido. He studied under Okuda Touen, a Confucian scholar of the Owari Domain, and later studied at Shoheiko in Edo. In 1859 (Ansei 6), he opened a private school in Nagoya, but two years later he moved to Osaka and opened the Soshoko Gakusha with Matsubayashi Rennosuke and Oka Rokumon, who were his classmates at Shoheiko. While he actively preached Sonnno Joi (revere the expulsion of the emperors) to his students, he also planned to raise an army to overthrow the shogunate together with Yoshimura Torataro and Fujimoto Tesseki, whom he had met in Kyoto. On August 13, 1863 (Bunkyu 3), the Imperial Council decision on the Imperial Visit to Yamato showed that the Choshu clan was preparing to carry out an overthrow of the shogunate. In response, on the 14th, he organized the Tenchu-gumi (a group of soldiers who fought to overthrow the shogunate) together with Yoshimura, Fujimoto, and over 30 other comrades, and became its president together with Yoshimura and the others, and raised an army in Gojo, Yamato. However, the situation changed drastically with the political upheaval of August 18, and the Imperial Council was called off, and he was pursued and killed in the Battle of Washikaguchi. His books include "Keido Bunko" and "Keido Iko."

[Tetsuzo Nagura]

``Matsumoto Keido'' by Mori Senzō (Chukō Bunko)

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

幕末の志士。三河国（愛知県）刈谷(かりや)藩用人印南維成(いんなみこれしげ)の次男。松本氏に養われる。名は初め孟成、のち衡、通称謙三郎、奎堂は号。尾張(おわり)藩儒臣奥田桐園(おくだとうえん)に学び、のち江戸昌平黌(しょうへいこう)に学ぶ。1859年（安政6）名古屋に私塾を開設したが、2年後、大坂に出て昌平黌の同窓の松林廉之助(まつばやしれんのすけ)、岡鹿門(おかろくもん)と双松岡学舎(そうしょうこうがくしゃ)を開塾。塾生に盛んに尊攘(そんじょう)論を説く一方、京都で交わった吉村虎太郎(よしむらとらたろう)、藤本鉄石(ふじもとてっせき)らと討幕挙兵を計画。1863年（文久3）8月13日、大和行幸(やまとぎょうこう)の朝議決定により長州藩が討幕を実行する構えをみせるとそれに呼応し、14日、吉村、藤本ら同志30余名とともに天誅組(てんちゅうぐみ)を組織、吉村らとともに総裁となり大和五條(ごじょう)に挙兵した。しかし八月十八日の政変により事態は急変、朝議とりやめとなり追討を受け、鷲家口(わしかぐち)の戦いに敗死。著書に『奎堂文稿』『奎堂遺稿』がある。

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『森銑三著『松本奎堂』（中公文庫）』

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