Sakamoto Ryōma
1836–1867 · samurai reformer · Japan
Politics and power30 years old in 1866
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.
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Edo, 1830s
- Who governs
- The Tokugawa shoguns still rule a country closed to most foreigners.
- Everyday life
- Edo is one of the largest cities in the world, and the Tenpō famine strikes in the 1830s.
- Arts and ideas
- Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji and Hiroshige's Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō.
- Meanwhile
- In Britain the first passenger railways run, and France has a new king after the revolution of 1830.
Their life in their time
- 1836
- 185317 years oldPerry's black ships arrive
- 186731 years oldSakamoto Ryōma is assassinatedassassinated
- 186731 years oldDies
