Teisuke Oki

Japanese: 沖禎介 - おき・ていすけ

Year of death: April 21, 1904 (Meiji 37)
Year of birth: 1874 (Meiji 7.6)
A special missions worker during the Russo-Japanese War. The eldest son of Okinawa District Court Judge Oki Shozo. Born in Hirado, Nagasaki Prefecture. While attending Nagasaki Ordinary Middle School, he ran away and enrolled in Kumamoto Seiseiko. After dropping out of the Fifth High School, he moved to Tokyo in 1895 and enrolled in Waseda College (dropped out). In 1891, he traveled to China (Qing) and became acting president of the Tobungakusha in Beijing. In 1891, he became independent and founded Bunmei Gakko, where he worked to educate the Chinese people. When the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1902, he volunteered to join a special missions unit and, together with Yokokawa Shozo and others, attempted to blow up the iron bridge of the Chinese Eastern Railway (near Flargi Station), a major artery of Russian military logistics, but was discovered near Tsuruchiha Station (the neighboring station), and executed by firing squad on the outskirts of Harbin. After the war, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, 5th Class, and enshrined at Yasukuni Shrine in 1905. <References> Yozo Murao, "The Patriot Oki Teisuke", South Manchuria Railway Company, "South Manchuria Railway Travel Guide"

(Masaya Kishimoto)

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

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没年：明治37.4.21(1904)
生年：明治7.6.(1874)
日露戦争時の特殊任務従事者。沖縄地方裁判所判事沖荘蔵の長男。長崎県平戸生まれ。長崎尋常中学在学中出奔して熊本済々黌に入学。第五高等学校中退ののち明治28(1895)年上京して早稲田専門学校に入る(中退)。34年中国(清)に渡り北京の東文学社の社長代理となり,36年独立して文明学校を創設,清国人教育に取り組んだ。37年日露戦争が勃発すると,志願して特別任務班に入り,横川省三らと共にロシア軍兵站の大動脈である東清鉄道の鉄橋(フラルギー駅付近)を爆破しようとしたが,ツルチハ駅(隣駅)付近で発見され,ハルビン郊外で銃殺刑に処せられた。戦後勲5等を授けられ,40年靖国神社に合祀。<参考文献>村尾要三『志士沖禎介』,南満州鉄道株式会社『南満州鉄道旅行案内』

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