Tsunayoshi Oyama

Japanese: 大山綱良 - おおやま・つなよし

Year of death: September 30, 1877
Year of birth: November 16, 1825 (December 25, 1825)
A samurai of the Satsuma Domain during the late Edo period, and the first governor of Kagoshima Prefecture. Born as the second son of Kabayama Zensuke, he was adopted into the Oyama family. Commonly known as Kakunosuke or Shoen. He rose to prominence as a tea boy, and was a master of the Jigen-ryu style of swordsmanship, unique to Satsuma. He played an important role in the Seichu-gumi, a group that included Saigo Takamori and Okubo Toshimichi, but in 1862 (Bunkyu 2), he followed the orders of Shimazu Hisamitsu to execute his comrades in the Fushimi Teradaya Incident. In the following year (Bunkyu 3), he served as a military service in the Anglo-Satsuma War, and continued to play an active role as a powerful figure in the Satsuma Domain, working with Okubo to get the Choshu Domain troops to Tokyo in the wake of the Imperial Restoration Coup. In the Boshin War, he was appointed as a staff officer for the pacification of Oshu and Uzen, fighting all over Oshu and Uzen, and distinguished himself in pacifying the Tohoku domains. In 1869 (Meiji 2), he was awarded a prize of 800 koku. In August 1871, he was appointed Grand Councillor of Kagoshima Prefecture, and in 1874, Governor of the same prefecture. After the defeat in the Seikanron Coup (1873), Saigo Takamori and others returned home to run a private school and take up a stance of resistance against the central government. As a prefectural governor, he fully supported the Private School Party and acted together with Saigo and the Private School Party during the Seinan War. In March 1810, he was stripped of his official rank and executed by beheading in Nagasaki in September.

(Atsushi Fukuchi)

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

Japanese:

没年：明治10.9.30(1877)
生年：文政8.11.16(1825.12.25)
幕末の薩摩藩士,初代鹿児島県令。樺山善助の次男に生まれ,大山家の養子になる。通称格之助,正円。茶坊主から立身。薩摩独自の剣術示現流の名手。西郷隆盛,大久保利通らの精忠組に属して重きをなしたが,文久2(1862)年の伏見寺田屋騒動では島津久光の命に従い同志を上意討ちした。翌3年の薩英戦争では軍賦役を勤め,以後も薩藩有力者として活躍,王政復古政変のため長州藩軍の上京工作に大久保と共に尽力。戊辰戦争では奥羽鎮撫参謀に任じ奥羽各地に転戦して東北諸藩鎮定に軍功あり,明治2(1869)年賞典禄800石を下賜された。4年8月鹿児島県大参事,7年同県令。征韓論政変(1873)で敗北した西郷隆盛らが帰郷して私学校を経営し中央政府への抵抗の構えをとると,県令として私学校党を全面的に支持,西南戦争でも西郷・私学校党と行動を共にしたため,10年3月官位を剥奪され,9月長崎で斬刑に処せられた。<著作>『大山綱良日誌』

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