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  Shimazu family - Cassiopedia, The True Encyclopedia
Shimazu (島津) was the family name of the daimyo of the Satsuma han, spreading through Satsuma, Osumi Hyuga provinces in Japan.
The founder, Shimazu Tadahisa (1179–1227), was a shugo daimyo during the Kamakura period, ruling Satsuma, Osumi, and Hyuga Provinces.
The 31st head of the Shimazu clan, Hisamitsu (1871–1887) was the daimyo of the Satsuma Han at the time of the Boshin War and the Meiji Restoration, in which Satsuma played a major role.
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 Shimazu family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shimazu (島津) was the family name of the daimyo of the Satsuma han, which spread over Satsuma, Osumi and Hyūga provinces in Japan.
The founder, Shimazu Tadahisa (1179–1227), was a shugo (privincial Constable) during the Kamakura period, ruling Satsuma, Osumi, and Hyūga Provinces.
His nephew and successor, Shimazu Tadatsune, however, held significant power during the first two decades of the 17th century, and organized the Shimazu invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom (modern-day Okinawa Prefecture) in 1609.
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 Satsuma and Choshu
In the summer of 1862, with the Imperial Court's blessings, Lord Shimazu Hisamitsu, father of Lord Shimazu Tadayoshi and the power behind the Satsuma daimyo, led a large retinue of men into Kyoto to call for the appointment of Tokugawa Yoshinobu and Matsudaira Yoshinaga as advisors to Shogun Iemochi.
The British target was Kagoshima, capital of the Satsuma domain and headquarters of Lord Shimazu Hisamitsu.
In the midst of the developing storm in Kyoto, Lord Shimazu Hisamitsu of Satsuma was appointed to the Imperial Council.
www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C20/E2005.htm   (4619 words)

  
 Tokugawa Yoshinobu
And in Edo, the shogunate councillors fear that Hisamitsu's true motive is the overthrow of the shogunate.
Hisamitsu, on the other hand, is left powerless in the shuffle of duties and leaves Edo outraged.
Shimazu Hisamitsu, lord of the Satsuma Clan, is appointed to the imperial council.
www.kikutv.com /shows/Japanese_Programs/Inactive/tokugawa_yoshinobu   (3112 words)

  
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Born into a powerful warrior family (elder brother was Shimazu Shimôsa, a domain elder) he was adopted by the Katsura house.
Although never daimyo himself, Hisamitsu was the father of the daimyo Shimazu Tadayoshi and had enormous influence over domain politics from 1859 until the 1870s.
Son of Shimazu Narioki, half-brother of Shimazu Hisamitsu.
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The Shimazu Family took the position of the feudal lord of the domain of Satsuma in succession.
At the end of the Edo period, the domain of Satsuma played an important role toward the Meiji restoration and later years in Japan by making a feudal lord of Nariakira Shimazu and Hisamitsu Shimazu who represented the influential clan as well as producing many patriots who joined the activity to overthrow the Shogunate.
Especially, the cannons and shells manufactured in the most up-to-date military science factory (Shuseikan) in those days, which was built under the direction of the 28th feudal lord, Nariakira Shimazu, who had an international view, Satsuma ceramics, and leaden printing types for typography are worth seeing.
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 5th International Conference on Okinawan Studies Shimazu Nariakira's plans to open trade with foreign countries in ...
In the Summer of 1857, while the American consul Townsend Harris and the Bakufu were about to start negotiations for a commercial treaty, the lord of Satsuma, Shimazu Nariakira, — a forerunner of the fukoku kyōhei policy — decided to open relations with the West.
Both the pressures exerted in the past by the French navy to open trade with Ryukyu and the treaty recently concluded between France and the kingdom made him confident that his trade proposal might be favorably considered in Paris.
However, his sudden death in August 1858 (western calendar) and his de facto replacement by his half-brother and rival Shimazu Hisamitsu forced his agents to quickly retrieve the order and to put an end to the whole operation.
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 National Console Support, Inc | Welcome | Willkommen | Bienvenido | Benvenuti
The mission in this scenario is to protect Ishin Shishi leader Kogorou Katsura from the Shinsengumi and escape through a backdoor in the inn to keep the rebellion alive.
In another scenario, players help Shimazu Hisamitsu of the Satsuma clan and soldiers in their 1868 overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Shimazu would eventually play a part in the Meiji Restoration.
www.ncsx.com /2005/ncs011705/bakumatsuden.htm   (443 words)

  
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Shimazu The damiyo house of Satsuma, the south edge territory of Japanese islands.
When the western army lose the battle of Sekigahara, the house Shimazu became a daimyo under the Edo shogunate.
Famous member: Shimazu Nariakira, Shimazu Hisamitsu Other Family Names for Bushi There is a collection of family names that actually existed in feudal Japan.
www.robomod.net /pipermail/vgai/1997-July/000789.html   (1565 words)

  
 Unique History of Okinawa
So, the king Shimazu of the Satsuma conqured Okinawa easily.
Shimazu allowed the Ryukyu to remain intact, but established severe onctrols over trade.
The Satsuma sustained trade with the Ming Dynasty under the name of the Ryukyu Kingdom, while the rest of Japan closed its country to almost all international access until 1853.
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 1862 | Political Events: The People's Chronology
Followers of the feudal lord Koshaku Shimazu Hisamitsu, 44, attack four Britons Sepember 14 as the men ride past their lord's procession without paying proper respects, one of the Britons is killed, two are wounded.
British forces show their power by destroying part of the han capital, Kagoshima, and Hisamitsu abandons his belligerence, offering to pay £25,000 and to punish the perpetrators if they can be found.
Hisamitsu became head of the huge Satsuma han (fiefdom) 4 years ago and has demanded that the corrupt shogunate increase the power of the emperor; his clan leader Keiki Tokugawa is appointed shōgunal guardian, and Hisamitsu works to discourage extremist leaders who want to overthrow the shōgunate and restore the emperor to power (see 1863).
history.enotes.com /peoples-chronology/year-1862   (2367 words)

  
 Shimazu, Hisamitsu | Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures
Born in Kagoshima, the son of Narioki Shimazu, lord of the Kagoshima Clan.
He lost to the first son of Narioki, Nariakira, in the conflict to win the headship of the family.
After the Meiji Restoration, he was given the post of minister of the left, but resigned from it because he opposed the government's westernization policy, and retired to his homeland.
www.ndl.go.jp /portrait/e/datas/106.html   (185 words)

  
 A Chronology of Japanese History
Ieyasu negotiates a settlement with Shimazu of Satsuma and Shimazu Tadatsune submits to Ieyasu in ceremonies at Fushimi palace.
Having become the most powerful of the daimyō in Kyōto, and therefore wielding the most influence with the imperial court, Shimazu Hisamitsu arranged to have himself appointed by the emperor to escort an imperial messenger who was to go to Edo to demand that the Shōgun come to Kyōto for consultations.
On Shimazu's return to Kyōto, four British cross paths with his entourage in the town of Namamugi, a small town outside of Yokohama.
www.shikokuhenrotrail.com /japanhistory/edohistory.html   (5521 words)

  
 Clamp Campus Detectives: An Ordinary Day
There was no time to waste; sneaking down the hallway, he approached the "haunted blades" exhibit, and as he went, he reviewed the history he'd learned regarding the particular dagger his mothers wanted him to steal.
On Sept 4, 1862, Shimazu Hisamitsu, daimyo of Satsuma, was on his way to Edo.
There were guns used, of course; Hisamitsu was a very technologically advanced leader for his day and age.
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 HakuBaikou.com
Kenshin bowed low as Shimazu made his remarks, not so much out of necessity as out of an intense desire to avoid the man’s close scrutiny, for now Shimazu was staring right at him.
With so many of Shimazu’s ceremonial guards ringing the area, the last thing he wanted was for even one wisp of his red hair to be seen.
Shimazu Hisamitsu’s comment about Satsuma being a leader in western technology even before the revolution is true.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
So, their hopes were quite heightened when Shimazu Hisamitsu, the chief of Satsuma Han (now province of Kagoshima) came to Kyoto.
But Shimazu's thoughts were quite different: he supported the "Koubu Gattai", thus his aim was making Bakufu adopting the "Sonnou" attitude in order to strengthen the Bakufu(shogunate).
And Shimazu went to Edo (Tokyo) under orders of the Emperor and made the Bakufu comply with the "Koubu Gattai" measures.
www.nabiki.com /nichan/archive/Authors/SerizawaKamo/bakumatsu.txt   (3153 words)

  
 Thermogenic sheet-combined poultices - Patent 4205685   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Tosu, JP); Toyo Ink Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP)
In the following tests, the wet pack composition layer (1) used was one produced in Preparation 1 to be described later and the wet pack composition layer (2) was one produced in Example 7 to be also described later.
Test method: One gram of each sample was charged into a Koka flow tester produced by Shimazu Works, Japan, allowed to stand under a load of 15 kg/cm.sup.2 at a particular temperature for 20 minutes and then measured for viscosity.
www.freepatentsonline.com /4205685.html   (6197 words)

  
 Ernest Mason Satow - Avoo - Ask Us A Question - The Rt Hon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Within a week of his arrival as a young student interpreter in the British Japan Consular Service, at age 19, the Namamugi Incident (Namamugi Jiken), in which a British merchant was killed on the Tōkaidō took place on September 14, 1862.
Satow was on board one of the British ships which bombarded Kagoshima in 1863 to punish the Satsuma clan's daimyo (Shimazu Hisamitsu) for the slaying of Charles Lennox Richardson and the refusal to pay an indemnity demanded as compensation.
In 1864, Satow was with the allied force (Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States) which attacked Shimonoseki to enforce the right of passage of foreign ships through the narrow Kanmon Strait between Honshū and Kyūshū.
www.sebastopolcaus.com /section/Ernest_Mason_Satow   (2095 words)

  
 MI Magazine
In late 1867, though, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last shogun, resigned, making the Emperor the legitimate ruler of the country.
Satsuma, Shimazu Hisamitsu, had had a falling out of sorts with the shogun, so he had switched sides, and his domain now assisted Choshu in the fight against the forces still loyal to the Shogun.
Aizu s fortunes in Kyoto took a turn for the worse, and after a resounding defeat at the Battle of Toba-Fushimi, the daimyo had no choice but to return home.
www.mimagazine.com.au /Issue10_Oct/10_HistoryAizu.htm   (1834 words)

  
 The Difference Dictionary:R
Strongly influenced by Shelley's The Revolt of Islam.
The Richardson affair - Sept 4, 1862, British subjects attacked near Yokohama by irreconcilably conservative (as Edwin Reischauer termed them) retainers of Shimazu Hisamitsu, daimyo of Satsuma.
Charles Richardson and three companions rode past Hitamatsu's procession without paying what was deemed proper respect.
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 Amazon.com: Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration: Books: Marius B. Jansen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Key Phrases: Matsudaira Shungaku, Shimazu Hisamitsu, Takechi Zuizan (more...
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We highly recommend that you listen to the earlier audio fics to get a background on this strange alternate Bakumatsu universe which has modern technology.
Matsudaira Katamori will field questions from the historical figure Fukuchi Genichiro after the raid on Ikedaya which was covered by the BBC in the newsreport above.
The Shogun (Keiki) was at a dinner party with Date Munenari (lord of Uwajima), Shimazu Hisamitsu (Satsuma regent), and Matsudaira Shungaku, and NAKAGAWA NO MIYA
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 Sample Chapter for Yukio, O.; Hara, F., trans.: The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional ...
Oki Takato added the ministry of justice to his responsibilities, Ito Hirobumi was made a councilor and minister of industry, the former vassal of the Tokugawa shogunate, Katsu Kaishu, was asked back as councilor and minister of the navy, and Terajima Munenori was also recalled as councilor and minister of foreign affairs.
Shimazu Hisamitsu, the erstwhile lord of Satsuma, was appointed government advisor (naikaku komon), a new post that was created in an attempt to mend the damage which had been done in the crisis.
Yet, the restlessness that resulted from the split over the ill-conceived Korean enterprise could not be paci-fied by these half-hearted, makeshift measures.
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 Serizawa Kamo's biography - page 3
He met with Nakagawanomiya Asahiko, a close man ("Shinnou") to the Emperor, and they realized that, if they were to face the Choushuu army, they were going to need a greater army.
So they allied with the Satsuma province, which was governed by Shimazu Hisamitsu, who wasn't then against the Bakufu.
The next step was to tell the Emperor the true purposes of the visit to Kyoto.
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 Amazon.com: The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori: Books: Mark Ravina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Saigo was born in Kagoshima, a castle town and the capital of Satsuma domain.
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 Endotoxin/Lipopolysaccharide Activates NF-{kappa}B and Enhances Tumor Cell Adhesion and Invasion Through a {beta}1 ...
The Toll-lreceptor family and control of innate immunity.
Shimazu, R., S. Akashi, H. Ogata, Y. Nagai, K. Fukudome, K. Miyake, M. Kimoto.
K. Kanai, K. Asano, T. Hisamitsu, and H. Suzaki
www.jimmunol.org /cgi/content/full/170/2/795   (5871 words)

  
 List of assassinated people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Shimazu Nariaki, (1858), Japanese daimyo in Satsuma Province, now Kagoshima prefecture
Charles Lennox Richardson, (1862), English diplomat, by Shimazu Hisamitsu's samaurai in Namamugi.
Inejiro Asanuma, (1960), Socialist Party of Japan chairman
88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Assassinated   (2661 words)

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