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Chiba Takusaburō : ウィキペディア英語版 | Chiba Takusaburō
—also known as Chiba Takuron—lived as an obscure liberal political activist and schoolteacher in the late Tokugawa, early Meiji period. In his younger years, Takusaburō studied Confucian, Buddhist, Christian and Methodist thought. In his later years, Takusaburō devoted his life in disseminating the importance of liberty and rights for the people. His numerous texts include the draft constitution in 1880 (influenced by texts regarding English, German and American models of governmental structure), ''The Institutional Maxims of Chiba Takusaburō'', ''Treatise on the Kingly Way'', and ''On the Futility of Book Learning''. Takusaburō died in late 1883 after a long battle with tuberculosis.〔Daikichi Irokawa, ''The Culture of the Meiji Period'', (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985), Ch.3.〕 Chiba Takusaburō attempted to bring forth a "grass roots" society, driven by the people. Chiba is emblematic of how the revolutionary spirit, more frequently attributed to men like Itagaki Taisuke, Ōkuma Shigenobu and Fukuzawa Yukichi, was existent in even low ranking samurai during the Freedom and People's Rights Movement or ''Jiyū Minken Undō''.〔Ann Waswo (1987), "The Culture of the Meiji Period: a Review," ''Journal of Japanese Studies'' 13 (1), 140-145〕 == Background ==
After the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868, the Meiji era began. Though acting in the name of imperial interests, the Meiji Restoration consolidated all power to an oligarchy, composed of the old samurai elite. By the 1870s, political protest against the new Meiji government emerged. Formerly a leader of the Restoration, Itagaki Taisuke urged the public to end the tyranny of the inner elite dominating the government. This Freedom and People's Rights Movement petitioned for a national assembly elected by the people. When the government rejected the petition in 1874, the People’s Rights Movement increasingly mobilized the agitated urban public. The voices of revolution and modern consciousness soon reached even remote mountain villages.〔Peter Duus, ''Modern Japan'', (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998)〕
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