Gudou Uchiyama

Japanese: 内山愚童 - うちやま・ぐどう

Year of death: January 24, 1911 (Meiji 44)
Year of birth: May 17, 1874 (Meiji 7)
A Buddhist and social thinker of the Meiji period. Born in Ojiya Town (Ojiya City), Niigata Prefecture, as the eldest son of Naokichi and Kazu, craftsmen who made wooden confectionery molds. His childhood name was Keikichi. In 1897, he was ordained at Hozoji Temple in Kanagawa Prefecture and changed his name to Gudo. After studying at the 12th Soto Zen middle school, he became the head priest of Rinsenji Temple in Ohiradai, Hakone in 1904. Gudo declared himself a socialist in the weekly Heimin Shimbun (January 17, 1904 issue), based on the idea that Buddhist egalitarianism and socialism are in agreement. In the wake of the Akahata Incident in 1906, he secretly published pamphlets that rejected the Emperor System, such as "Prison Memorial: Anarchic Communism." He was implicated in the High Treason Incident in 1908, and was charged with high treason for making reckless remarks in Osaka and Kobe, such as that the Emperor would be so shocked that he would die if the Crown Prince was assassinated, and he was executed. <References> Ryuho Kashiwagi, "The High Treason Incident and Uchiyama Gudō"; Eizaburo Morinaga, "Uchiyama Gudō"

(Yamaizumi Susumu)

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

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没年：明治44.1.24(1911)
生年：明治7.5.17(1874)
明治期の仏教家,社会思想家。新潟県小千谷町(小千谷市)に菓子木型製作職人直吉とカズの長男として生まれた。幼名は慶吉。明治30(1897)年神奈川県宝増寺で得度,愚童と改名。曹洞宗第12中学に学んだのち,37年箱根大平台の林泉寺の住職となった。愚童が社会主義者であることを表明したのは,週刊『平民新聞』(1904年1月17日号)で,仏教の平等主義と社会主義が一致するとの考えに基づいている。41年の赤旗事件を契機に『入獄紀念・無政府共産』などの天皇制否定の小冊子を秘密出版した。43年大逆事件に連座,大阪や神戸での,皇太子暗殺により天皇も驚いて死ぬだろうなどの放言が大逆罪に問われ,処刑された。<参考文献>柏木隆法『大逆事件と内山愚童』,森長英三郎『内山愚童』

(山泉進)

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