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VISCOUNT BUYO ENOMOTO (1839-1909)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 652 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VISCOUNT BUYO ENOMOTO (1839-1909)  ,
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Japanese
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vice-
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admiral, was born in Tokyo . He was the first officer sent by the
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Tokugawa government to study
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naval science in
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Europe, andafter going through a course of instruction in Holland he returned in command of the
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frigate " Kaiyo Maru," built at Amsterdam to order of the Yedo administration . The salient
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episode of his career was an attempt to establish a republic at
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Hakodate . Finding himself in command of a
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squadron which represented practically the whole of
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Japan's naval forces, he refused to acquiesce in the deposition of the Shogun, his liege lord, and, steaming off to
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Yezo (1867), proclaimed a republic and fortified Hakodate . But he was soon compelled to surrender . The newly organized government of the
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empire, however, instead of inflicting the
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death penalty on him and his
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principal followers, as would have been the inevitable sequel of such a drama in previous times, punished them with imprisonment only, and four years after the Hakodate episode, Enomoto received an important
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post in
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Hokkaido, the very scene of his wild attempt . Subsequently (1874), as his country's representative in St
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Petersburg, he concluded the treaty by which Japan exchanged the
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southern
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half of Saghalien for the Kuriles . He received the title of viscount in 1885, and afterwards held the portfolios of communications,
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education and
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foreign affairs . He died at Tokyo in 1909 .

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