The first Japanese students in Britain were sent in the nineteenth century by the Choshu and Satsuma clans, then the Bakufu (Shogunate). Later many studied at Cambridge University and a smaller number at Oxford University until the end of the Meiji era. The reason for sending them was to catch up with the West by modernizing Japan. Nagato (Ja. ... The Satsuma Clan was a samurai clan which inhabited the Satsuma province of Japans Kyushu island. ... For the James Clavell novel, see Shogun or for the TV Miniseries. ... REDIRECT [1] ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... History of Japan Paleolithic Jomon Yayoi Yamato period ---Kofun period ---Asuka period Nara period Heian period Kamakura period Muromachi period Azuchi-Momoyama period ---Nanban period Edo period Meiji period Taisho period Showa period ---Japanese expansionism ---Occupied Japan ---Post-Occupation Japan Heisei The Meiji period (Japanese: Meiji Jidai 明治時代 ) (1868–1912...

Choshu Five (1863)

At University College London supervised by Professor Alexander William Williamson The Choshu five (長州五傑 Chōshū Goketsu) were members of the Choshu han of western Japan who studied in England at University College London under the guidance of Professor Alexander William Williamson. ... University College London, commonly known as UCL, is one of the colleges that make up the University of London. ... Jump to: navigation, search Alexander William Williamson (1824-1904), English chemist, was born at Wandsworth, London, on the 1st of May 1824. ...

• Ito Shunsuke (later Ito Hirobumi)
• Inoue Monta (later Inoue Kaoru)
• Nomura Yakichi (later Inoue Masaru)
• Endo Kinsuke
• Yamao Yozo

Jump to: navigation, search Endo Kinsuke 遠藤謹助 (1836-1893) was a member of the Choshu Five who were smuggled to England in 1863 because the Choshu clan were desperate to acquire knowledge of the West to help them in their struggles with the Tokugawa bakufu. ...

Satsuma students (1865)

15 Satsuma students, one from Tosa and one from Nagasaki. Two supervisors (ometsuke). This group also studied at University College London which was open to students of all religions. University College London, commonly known as UCL, is one of the colleges that make up the University of London. ...

• Mori Arinori
• Godai Tomoatsu
• Terashima Munenori
• Sameshima Naonobu
• Nagasawa Kanae

and others Mori Arinori 森有礼(August 23, 1847-February 12, 1889) was a Japanese scholar of Western ideas and enlightenment. ...

Bakufu students (1866)

Supervisors:

• Kawaji Taro
• Nakamura Keisuke

Students: (12)

• Naruse Jogoro
• Toyama Sutehachi,
• Mitsukuri Keigo
• Fukuzawa Einosuke (no relation of Fukuzawa Yukichi!)
• Hayashi Tozaburo (later Hayashi Tadasu)
• Ito Shonosuke
• Okukawa Ichiro
• Yasui Shinpachiro
• Mitsukuri Dairoku (later Kikuchi Dairoku)
• Ichikawa Morisaburo
• Sugi Tokujiro
• Iwasa Genji

Fukuzawa Yukichi, c. ... Count Hayashi Tadasu (1850-1913) studied in England with Kikuchi Dairoku at University College School, 1866-68, being one of fourteen young Japanese sent by the Tokugawa shogunate. ... Kikuchi Dairoku as a professor at Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo) Kikuchi Dairoku (菊池大麓 Kikuchi Dairoku, March 17, 1855 - August 19, 1917) was born in Edo, the second son of Mitsukuri Shuhei. ...

Students in the Meiji era

Cambridge University

• Kikuchi Dairoku
• Suematsu Kencho
• Inagaki Manjiro
• Okura Kishichiro
• Tanaka Ginnosuke

Kikuchi Dairoku as a professor at Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo) Kikuchi Dairoku (菊池大麓 Kikuchi Dairoku, March 17, 1855 - August 19, 1917) was born in Edo, the second son of Mitsukuri Shuhei. ... Categories: Japanese authors | Japanese historians | Japanese statesmen | Japan-related stubs ... Inagaki Manjiro from Nagasaki Ken Jibutsu Den Inagaki Manjiro (稲垣 満次郎 Inagaki Manjirō; born 1861; died 1908) was a Japanese diplomat. ... Baron Kishichiro Okura (1882-1963, 大倉喜七郎 Okura Kishichiro in Japanese) studied at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1903 to 1906 but he did not manage to graduate from Cambridge University. ... Tanaka Ginnosuke 田中銀之助　(1873-1933) - family name first in the Japanese style - was educated at the Leys School in Cambridge and then Trinity Hall, a college of Cambridge University. ...

Oxford University

• Hachisuka Mochiaki
• Nanjo Bunyu - professor of Sanscrit at Tokyo University
• Takakusu Junjiro

The Yasuda Auditorium on the University of Tokyos Hongo Campus. ...

See also

• Anglo-Japanese relations

Chronology of Anglo-Japanese relations (Nichi-Ei kankei 日英関係) 1600. ...

References

• The Satsuma Students in Britain: Japan's Early Search for the Essence of the West by Andrew Cobbing, Curzon Press, 2000, ISBN 1873410972
• Japanese Students at Cambridge University in the Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers for the Modernization of Japan, by Noboru Koyama, translated by Ian Ruxton [1], (Lulu Press, September 2004, ISBN 1411612566).