Baron Yamakawa Kenjiro (山川健次郎 Yamakawa Kenjirō?);(1854-1931) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who went on to become a noted physicist, university president, and author of several histories of the Boshin War. is the term for the military nobility of Pre-industrial Japan. The, also referred to as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代 Tokugawa-jidai) is a division of Japanese history running from 1603 to 1868 The was a Civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the Though his name is commonly written "Yamakawa," he himself wrote it as "Yamagawa" in English.
Yamakawa was born as the third son to Yamakawa Naoe, a senior samurai of the Aizu Domain (present day Fukushima Prefecture). is an area comprising the westernmost third of Fukushima Prefecture in Japan. WikipediaWikiProject Japanese prefectures for guidelines --> is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region on the island of He became a member of the Byakkotai, a unit of the newly reorganized Aizu domain army composed mostly of boys aged 15 to 17 years, who fought in defense of Aizu during the Boshin War. The was a group of around 305 young teenage Samurai of the Aizu domain who fought in the Boshin War.
After the Meiji Restoration, through the mediation of the Zen monk Kawai Zenjun, Yamakawa was placed in the care of Chōshū retainer Okudaira Kensuke. The, also known as the Meiji Ishin, Revolution, or Renewal, was a chain of events that led to enormous changes in Japan 's political and social structure Zen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism, referred to in Chinese as Chan. The was a Feudal domain of Japan during the Edo period (1603-1867 occupying the whole of modern day Yamaguchi Prefecture. Yamakawa was sent by the new Meiji government to study physics at Yale University, where he was the first student from Japan to attend. The Government of Meiji period Japan from 1868-1911 was an evolution of institutions and structures from the feudal order of the Tokugawa bakufu towards Physics (Greek Physis - φύσις in everyday terms is the Science of Matter and its motion. On his return to Japan, he was posted to Tokyo Imperial University, and became Japan’s first Japanese professor of physics in 1879. The, abbreviated as, is a major Research university located in Tokyo, Japan. Physics (Greek Physis - φύσις in everyday terms is the Science of Matter and its motion. (There had already been several foreign professors, such as William Edward Ayrton. William Edward Ayrton FRS ( 14 September 1847 - 8 November 1908) was an English Physicist and Electrical )
During the Meiji and Taisho period he served as president of Tokyo Imperial University (1901-1905 and 1913-1920), Kyoto Imperial University (1914-1915), and he helped found the Kyushu Institute of Technology in 1907. The, or Taishō era, is a period in the History of Japan dating from July 30, 1912 to December 25, 1926, coinciding with the reign or is a major national university in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest university in Japan and formerly one of the Imperial Universities of is one of the 87 national universities in Japan Located in Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū, it is dedicated to education and research in the fields He was later ennobled with the title of danshaku (baron) under the kazoku peerage system. Baron is a specific Title of nobility. The word baron comes from Old French baron, itself from Old High German and Latin (liber The was the hereditary Peerage of the Empire of Japan that existed between 1869 and 1947 Later in his life he was also a Privy Councilor (appointed in February 1923) and a member of the House of Peers. was an advisory council to the Emperor of Japan that operated from 1888 to 1947 This article is about the Japanese body The British House of Lords is also known as the House of Peers for certain ceremonial purposes.
He and his brother Yamakawa Hiroshi are known amongst historians of the late Edo period as authors of two monumental texts-- Kenjiro's being "Aizu Boshin Senshi," which catalogues the actions of his home domain during the war. Baron was a Samurai of late Edo period Japan who went on to become a noted General in the early Meiji period Imperial Japanese He also authored several other history texts, including "Hoshū Aizu Byakkotai Jūkyūshi-den," which he wrote with fellow Aizu native Munekawa Toraji.
References and further reading
- Hoshi Ryōichi, Yamakawa Kenjiro Den, Heibonsha, 2003 ISBN 4-582-83181-8
- Marshall, Byron K. The Tradition of Conflict in the Governance of Japan's Imperial Universities. History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Winter, 1977), pp. 385-406
- Yamakawa Kenjiro, Aizu Boshin Senshi. Tokyo: Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai, 1931.
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