Katsu Kaishu (勝 海舟 Katsu Kaishū, 1823-99) was a stateman in Japan in the late shogunate period who held an important part in the Tokugawa shogunate in rare occasions. He is particularly known for his role in the surrender of Edo. Kaishu was not his courtesy name.
KatsuKaishu (勝 海舟 Katsu Kaishū; Awa Katsu;Kaishu; Hintaro; Yoshikuni 1823-99) was a Japanese naval officer and statesman during the Late Tokugawa shogunate and the Meiji period.
His father, Katsu Kokichi, was the head of a minor samurai family who eventually rose to occupy the position of commissioner (Gunkan-bugyo) in the Tokugawa navy.
Katsu, under the advisement of Dutch advisors, served as director of training for the Nagasaki naval center between 1855 until 1859 when he was commissioned an officer in the shogun's navy the following year.
KatsuKaishu, consummate samurai, streetwise denizen of Downtown Edo, founder of the Japanese navy, statesman par excellence and always the outsider, historian and prolific writer, faithful retainer of the Tokugawa Shogun and mentor of men who would overthrow him was among the most remarkable of the numerous heroes of the Meiji Restoration.
Kaishu was the commissioner of the shogun's navy, who took the young rebels under his wing at his private naval academy in Kobe, teaching them the naval sciences and maritime skills required to build a modern navy.
In 1862, Kaishu was appointed vice-commissioner of the Tokugawa Navy.
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