Ryoma sakamoto biography books

  • Sakamoto Ryōma was a Japanese samurai, a shishi and influential figure of the Bakumatsu, and establishment of the Empire of Japan in the late Edo period.
  • It is the first literary biography in English of Sakamoto Ryoma, one of the main people responsible for overthrowing the Tokugawa Shogunate.
  • Ryōma!

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    Sakamoto Ryōma

    Japanese samurai and politician (1836–1867)

    In this Japanese name, the surname is Sakamoto.

    Not to be confused with Sakamoto Ryōta, the protagonist of the manga series Btooom!.

    Sakamoto Ryōma (坂本龍馬 or 坂本竜馬, 3 January 1836 – 10 December 1867) was a Japanesesamurai, a shishi and influential figure of the Bakumatsu, and establishment of the Empire of Japan in the late Edo period.

    Sakamoto was a low-ranking samurai from the Tosa Domain on Shikoku and became an active opponent of the Tokugawa Shogunate after the end of Japan's sakoku isolationist policy. Under the alias Saitani Umetarō (才谷梅太郎), he worked against the Bakufu, the government of the Tokugawa shogunate, and was often hunted by their supporters and the Shinsengumi. Sakamoto advocated for democracy, Japanese nationalism, return of power to the Imperial Court, abolition of feudalism, and moderate modernization and industrialization of Japan. Sakamoto successfully negotiated the Satchō

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    In The Life and Letters of Sakamoto Ryōma, author Alexandre Pappas delves into the life of one of Japan's most revered and enigmatic figures. Born into a low-ranking samurai family in the Tosa domain, Sakamoto Ryōma rose to prominence during the Bakumatsu, a tumultuous period in his nation’s history that saw the end of the samurai era. With unparalleled vision and unwavering courage, Ryōma played a crucial role in dismantling the Tokugawa shogunate helping to catapult the nation from centuries of feudal isolation to becoming a modern, industrialized world power. This meticulously researched biography chronicles Ryōma's journey from his early years of swordsmanship training in Edo to his bold political maneuvers that united feuding domains under the banner of Imperial restoration.

    Through engaging prose and rich historical detail including over thirty letters and missives written by Ryōma himself, The Life and Letters of Sakamoto Ryōma offers readers an intimate look at nineteenth c

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    Ryoma! The Life of Sakamoto Ryoma Japanese Swordsman and Visionary, Volume I

    August 12, 2021
    As inom prefer the Genji Monogatari to the Heike Monogatari and the courtly Heian period to the savage age of the samurai that followed it, inom also have never been very enthusiastic about the Bakumatsu period, the violent last years of the Tokugawa shogunat (japansk regering) which lasted from the arrival of Perry's Black Ships in 1853 to the end of the regime in 1868. Moreover, this was a period of extreme nationalism (another phenomenon inom despise) and anti-Western hatred - it was a dangerous time to be in Japan as several murders of Westerners demonstrate. I also was not so enthusiastic about Sakamoto Ryoma, for I had read the study bygd Marius Jansen (Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration) which shows him to have been a bit player and someone in the background rather than a leader.

    But now I have read the first part of the translation of Shiba Ryotaro's huge novel Ryoma! and I have changed my mind. In the