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Japan: Yoshida Shoin (1830-1859) intellectual, teacher and revolutionary, painting on silk, latter half of the 19th century, Yamaguchi Prefecture Archive Museum

Yoshida Shoin (September 20, 1830 November 21, 1859), commonly named Torajiro, was one of Japan's most distinguished intellectuals in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate.<br/><br/> . An opponent of the Tokugawa Shogunate and advocate of political reform, he was executed by the Tokugawa authorities in 1859, aged 29.<br/><br/> . Yoshida Shoin is enshrined at the Shoin shrine in Wakabayashi, Setagaya-ku, in Tokyo, as well as at his birthplace in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
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Title: Japan: Yoshida Shoin (1830-1859) intellectual, teacher and revolutionary, painting on silk, latter half of the 19th century, Yamaguchi Prefecture Archive Museum
Caption: Yoshida Shoin (September 20, 1830 November 21, 1859), commonly named Torajiro, was one of Japan's most distinguished intellectuals in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate.

. An opponent of the Tokugawa Shogunate and advocate of political reform, he was executed by the Tokugawa authorities in 1859, aged 29.

. Yoshida Shoin is enshrined at the Shoin shrine in Wakabayashi, Setagaya-ku, in Tokyo, as well as at his birthplace in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
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Image size: 2182 × 5100 px | 31.8 MB
Print size: 18.5 × 43.2 cm | 859.1 × 2007.9 in (300 dpi)