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Sakamoto Ryoma坂本龍馬alternative words: Ryoma Sakamoto, Sakamoto Ryouma, Ryouma Sakamoto, Sakamoto Ryuma, Ryuma Sakamoto keywords: famous person , meiji revolution related topics: Bakumatsu , Edo shogunate , Meiji revolution , Katsu Kaishu , Tosa domain related web sites: http://www2.net-kochi.gr.jp/~kenbunka/ryoma/ , http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~jp3t-tris/tk_ryoma.html , http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/~ryoma/ , http://www.city.kochi.kochi.jp/ryoma/yukari.htm , http://www2.inforyoma.or.jp/~kaien/ explanation: One of the leaders of Meiji Revolution. Born in 1835 in a samurai family of Tosa domain. He began to learn swordsmanship at Tokyo but quickly changed his preference to "navigation technique" thanks to an influence of a prowestern samurai, Katsu Kaishu. Then he greatly contributed not only to build modern merchant and military fleets in different regions of Japan but to unify divers prowestern movements. Unfortunately he was assassinated in 1867 at Kyoto without seeing the reward. | |