Zouzan Shrine - Nagano

Come on when you go sightseeing in Matsushiro! It enshrines Mr. Xiangshan, a celebrity in this area. I taught Shoin Yoshida and Ryoma Sakamoto. Buildings from the late Edo period still remain in the surrounding area.

It is a shrine that enshrines Sakuma Shozan, a priest of the late Tokugawa period in Matsushiro in Nagano city. (It is said that it is read as "Zouzan" locally) He taught to Shoin Yoshida, Katsu Kaishu, Ryoma Sakamoto, etc. and had a great influence. Katsu Kaishu's name "Kaishu" comes from the name of the cram school that Elephant Mountain opened. He had a close relationship with Katsu Kaishu's younger sister as his wife. Sakuma Shozan was ordered to live in Matsushiro in connection with the case of Shoin Yoshida's escape from the country, and after being allowed to do so, he went up to Kyoto, but was soon assassinated. In the precincts, there are statues of famous scholars with ties, and you can see the magnitude of their influence.

I went to early spring. The atmosphere may be good in the spring-autumn season with cherry blossoms and autumn leaves.

The autumn leaves have already passed, but there are few tourists and I was able to take a leisurely stroll.

To be honest, I'm the kind of person I'm not good at when I'm nearby. Generally, Mr. Jiuyuan is too smart. That's why all the people around us look stupid and don't try to hide it at all. In 1938, before the war, Jiuyuan-sensei, who did not bend the logic of the feudal lord in the truth, and at the same time had many enemies due to the irreverence of the nation's property, was in the middle of praise and praise. In addition, it will be a shrine built next to the birthplace. A Dutch scholar from the Matsushiro clan who opened the "May Juku" in Edo at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, and was not only a professor of Western technology to Katsu Kaishu, Yoshida Shoin, and Ryoma Sakamoto, but also had a great influence on the theory of opening the country. It is famous for giving. However, in the end, this arrogance caused him to die. I was invited by Yoshinobu Hitotsubashi to persuade the Joi faction to go to Kyoto, which was noisy immediately after the Ikedaya incident, but I walked around the town of Kyoto with a white horse with a Western-style saddle as if to provoke the conservative faction. is. Does that mean, "What can we do for a stupid conservative who doesn't know the world situation or Western technology! I'll tell you the times." No, Sensei, even if I advised that terrorism can be done even if it is stupid, it seems that this confident person did not listen. I have been noticed by Kawakami Gensai (a model of Himura Kenshin, the main character of the manga "Rurouni Kenshin"), who is also known as "Hitokiri Hikosai" who can take revenge on the Ikedaya incident. After that, it became a tragedy in the daytime, and Dr. Jiuyuan, who was attacked on horseback, died without any resistance. Unreasonably, the Sanada clan's family was cut down because it was said that "the samurai's death was serious." Hikosai wouldn't have been able to do anything with him when he slashed the most. There is no excuse because I lost my life with useless vanity and lost the way to utilize my insights and abilities in a new era. It is a shrine that makes you think about what the true meaning of "wisdom" (rather than cleverness) is. After the incident, Hikosai learned about Professor Elephant's talents and scholarship, and was shocked and regretted that he had killed the human resources who will lead the future of Japan. Is that ...

It is a shrine that enshrines Sakuma Shozan, which had a great influence on the period from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji Restoration. In the precincts, there are statues of Shoin Yoshida, Katsu Kaishu, and Ryoma Sakamoto who were active at the end of the Edo period.

It was a shrine dedicated to the thinker Sakuma Shozan at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, and there was a shrine and a stone monument that were much better than I had imagined. Next to it is the birthplace of Xiangshan, where there are mansion ruins and old wells, which is also quite large.

With Katsu Kaishu's teacher, it was a study full of highlights in the precincts. It is managed and beautiful.