Takuma Yamamoto to introduce this time Is a hero at the end of the Edo period, Ryoma Sakamoto A person who has a blood relationship with Mr.
One day, Takuma causes an incident in Edo.
With the help of Mr. Ryoma, he escaped to Hokkaido, and from there he proceeded to his second life.
Currently "Nikolai-do" in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo I'm a person who has something to do with.
Let's go.
What is your relationship with Ryoma Sakamoto?
1834 , Goshi of Tosa Domain in Tosa Province (currently Kochi Prefecture) Was born as the eldest son of.
A goshi is a farmer who was a samurai and was treated as a samurai. It's a status that belongs to the lower class. Ryoma has the same status.
Takuma's grandfather's younger brother was adopted by the Sakamoto family, and his second son is Ryoma.
Ryoma is Takuma's uncle. Ryoma is about two years younger.
I have another famous relative.
A leader of the Tosa domain, he was radically engaged in the Sonnojoi movement, but he was imprisoned and had a tragic end with seppuku. Takechi Hanpeita Mr. is.
Hanpeita's wife is a child of Takuma's mother's brother, so Hanpeita's wife and Takuma are brothers and sisters. It's a little confusing.
Ryoma-san and Hanpeita-san, who were leading the young people of the Tosa domain, are far from each other, but they are relatives.
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Ryoma is Hokushin at the Chiba Dojo in Edo. He is famous for learning Ito-ryu and being good at swordsmanship. Chiba Sanako of the dojo is also Ryoma's wife.
Another relative, Hanpeita, was also learning the Ono school one-sword style and was very good at swordsmanship.
Founder of Hokushin Ittou style, Shusaku Chiba Mr. is also the flow of the Ono school one sword style.
Losing and Takuma are also one of the three major dojos in Edo Kyoshin Meichi I will be a teacher at the Momoi Dojo.
However, one night in August 1857, when Takuma and Ryoma were devoted to swordsmanship training, the incident happened.
Takuma was involved with a passerby on his way home after drinking alcohol with his friend, selling off the gold watch he had dropped with drunken momentum, and playing with the money.
Soon after, the incident came to light and Takuma and his colleagues were forced into seppuku.
Of course, it is not forgiven, but Ryoma and Hanpeita, who are in the same country and also have relatives, repaired Takuma so that he could escape from Edo.
Maejima Hisoka , who was later called the "father of the mail" by a politician in Niigata, which flowed around Sendai and Aizu and finally arrived. I met him and was recommended to go to Hakodate.
"If you want to learn new things in Japan, it's Hakodate!"
I feel that the name "Mr. Mitsu" is also fateful.
Then, start your second life in Hakodate.
Encounter with Father Nikolai.
To the Sawabe family as a son-in-law!
In Hakodate, when I opened the dojo with my skill in swordsmanship, I became friends with celebrities, and I became a son of the Sawabe family of the Hakodate Shinmei shrine priest who I met.
"Takuma Sawabe" The name changes.
Around that time, Niijima Yae played by Haruka Ayase in the 2013 Taiga drama "Yae no Sakura". Husband, Niijima 襄 Takuma is helping him stowaway to the United States.
Celebrities meet celebrities, don't they? It was Joe Odagiri who played Mr. Odagiri.
Killing Father Nikolai! ??
1861 , Father Nikolai who wanted to come to Japan Has been appointed as a chapel priest attached to the Russian Consulate in Hakodate.
Nikolai is studying Japanese classical literature, history, and art.
He is learning Japanese from Joseph Hardy Neesima, and he is learning English and world affairs from Nikolai.
However, Takuma, who had been in and out of the consulate as a leader in Japanese martial arts, thought Nikolai was a spy who came to invade Japan . It is. Was he a skeptical personality, or was it such an era?
Finally, Takuma puts a sword on his waist and heads to question Nikolai's true intentions. He is a samurai.
"Why did you come to Japan? Depending on the response, you will be killed!"
"Do you know the teachings of Christianity? Isn't it not too late to know good or bad?"
Takuma thought that there was a reason, and decided to learn Nikolai's teachings.
In this case, mummification is in a mummy state, and I get stuck in it and even invite my friends.
He became the first believer in the Orthodox Church in Japan.
"Khristos" is another name for Christ, and "Orthodox Church" is one of the Christian denominations.
The same thing is happening to Mr. Ryoma, who has a blood relationship.
Mr. Ryoma is a heavyweight of the shogunate who was an open sect, Katsu Kaishu I went to slash him, but on the contrary, it is a famous story that he was persuaded and became a disciple as it was.
It looks like this.
In other words, when Japanese people at that time first came into contact with foreign culture, they would be overwhelmed and drawn in.
Christianity prohibited!
Christianity is Oda Nobunaga It was protected in his time, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi When he took the world, the missionaries were deported.
And in the Edo period, 1612 In earnest "Persecution of Christianity" Was announced.
Those who were called Christian daimyos also disappeared completely.
1637 "Shimabara Rebellion" Is famous for the battle of Shogunate vs. Kakure Kirishitan.
Even at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan was still in this state, so Takuma was secretly baptized.
However, Mr. Takuma was in the position of a priest, so he hid his paganism, but eventually he was exposed and left Shinmeigu.
The persecution of the Takuma family was fierce, and there was an incident in which his wife, who had come spiritually, set fire to her home.
Takuma, who left his wife and children and fled to Tohoku, was finally imprisoned.
However, when the world became the Meiji era and the persecution of Christianity was abolished, Takuma became free and began to focus on Christian missions.
The first Japanese priest!
As the momentum of Christianity began to grow, the need for Japanese clergy increased.
Meanwhile, Meiji 8 , Takuma is the first Japanese "priest" It becomes.
A priest is one of the ranks in Christianity.
Takuma, who became a priest, will be the one who will baptize at churches around the world.
And the cathedral "Nikolai-do" in Kanda, Tokyo He was instrumental in the construction.
However, there was a time when I was in conflict with Mr. Nikolai that this construction fund should be used for the living expenses of those in need.
The remaining Nikolai-do was destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake, but it was later restored with some changes in its appearance.
Takuma devoted his life to the ministry, Meiji 45 When his teacher, Nikolai, died, the following year, he was taken care of by his eldest son, his priest, died at the age of 79 . It is.