Hachiro Miyazaki

Japanese: 宮崎八郎 - みやざき・はちろう

Year of death: April 6, 1877
Year of birth: 1851
A freedom and civil rights activist in the early Meiji period. His name was Shingo. He was the second son of a local samurai from Arao Village, Tamana County, Higo Province (Arao City, Kumamoto Prefecture), and the older brother of Tamizo and Toten. He left the domain school Jishukan and traveled to Tokyo in 1870 (Meiji 3) to study at a private school run by Nishi Amane and others. In February 1874, he submitted the Seikanron (Conquest of Korea) to the Left House, and in April, he served in the Taiwan expedition. After participating in the founding convention of the Aikokusha Society in February 1875, he founded the Ueki School in Kumamoto, which used Minyakuron as its scripture, and launched a campaign to establish a prefectural citizen's association, while also writing anti-government articles for the Hyoron Shimbun and other publications. In the Satsuma Rebellion (1877), he intended to "let Saigo take over the world and then rebel again," so he formed the Kumamoto Cooperative Corps and joined the Satsuma army, fighting against the Emperor's army and dying in battle in Yatsushiro. <References> Uemura Kimio, "The Tale of the Miyazaki Brothers," Japan Volume 1

(Kimio Uemura)

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没年：明治10.4.6(1877)
生年：嘉永4(1851)
明治初期の自由民権運動家。名は真郷。肥後国玉名郡荒尾村(熊本県荒尾市)の郷士の次男,民蔵,滔天の兄。藩校時習館から明治3(1870)年東京遊学,西周らの私塾に学ぶ。7年2月征韓論を左院に上書し,4月の台湾出兵に従軍。8年2月の愛国社結成大会参加後は熊本で『民約論』を経典とする植木学校を創設,県民会開設運動を展開する一方,『評論新聞』などに反政府の筆をふるう。西南戦争(1877)では「西郷に天下取らせてまた謀反する」ことを意図し,熊本協同隊を結成して薩軍に参加,天皇の軍隊と戦い八代で戦死した。<参考文献>上村希美雄『宮崎兄弟伝』日本篇上

(上村希美雄)

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