Yanaka Cemetery

Ōhashi Totsuan

1816–1862 (age 46)

Yanaka Cemetery

Shibusawa Heikurō

1847–1868 (age 21)

Yanaka Cemetery

A samurai warrior whose life and death coincided with the pivotal Meiji Restoration of 1868.

Kikuchi Yōsai

1788–1878 (age 90)

Yanaka Cemetery

Sasaki Akinobu

1806–1876 (age 70)

Yanaka Cemetery

Sasaki Akinobu was a figure of the late Edo and Meiji periods who lived through Japan's transformative nineteenth centur...

Satō Taizen

1804–1872 (age 68)

Yanaka Cemetery

Shimada Ichirō

1848–1878 (age 30)

Yanaka Cemetery

Shimada Ichirō was a samurai of the late Edo period whose life reflected the martial traditions of his class.

Satake Eikai

1803–1874 (age 71)

Yanaka Cemetery

Ikeda Tachū

1820–1872 (age 52)

Yanaka Cemetery

Ikeda Tachū was a physician whose medical practice served his community during the nineteenth century.

Ukai Gyokusen

1807–1887 (age 80)

Yanaka Cemetery

Ukai Gyokusen was a pioneering Japanese photographer who documented his era during Japan's early adoption of photographi...

Azusa Ono

1852–1886 (age 34)

Yanaka Cemetery

Mitsukuri Shūhei

1826–1886 (age 60)

Yanaka Cemetery

Mitsukuri Shūhei was a Meiji-period historian whose scholarly contributions shaped modern Japanese historical studies.

Washizu Kidō

1825–1882 (age 57)

Yanaka Cemetery

Nakazō Nakamura III

1809–1886 (age 77)

Yanaka Cemetery

Nakazō Nakamura III was a renowned kabuki actor of the Meiji era who upheld the traditions of classical Japanese theate...

Satō Takanaka

1827–1882 (age 55)

Yanaka Cemetery

Tsuneki Kurushima

1860–1889 (age 29)

Yanaka Cemetery

Tsuneki Kurushima was a young Meiji-era activist whose passionate advocacy for social reform left a lasting impact despi...

Egi Takatō

1849–1880 (age 31)

Yanaka Cemetery

Tatsui Baba

1850–1888 (age 38)

Yanaka Cemetery

Baba Tatsui (馬場 辰猪; 24 June 1850 – 1 November 1888) was a Japanese legislative reformer during the Meiji perio...

Ichiyō Higuchi

1872–1896 (age 24)

Yanaka Cemetery

Natsuko Higuchi (Japanese: 樋口 夏子, Hepburn: Higuchi Natsuko; 2 May 1872 – 23 November 1896), known by her pen n...

Date Munenari

1818–1892 (age 74)

Yanaka Cemetery

Date Munenari (伊達 宗城; DAH-tay; September 1, 1818 – December 20, 1892) was the eighth head of the Uwajima Domai...

Ryōkichi Yatabe

1851–1899 (age 48)

Yanaka Cemetery

Ryōkichi Yatabe (矢田部良吉; October 13, 1851 – August 8, 1899) was a Japanese botanist during the Meiji era.

Konakamura Kiyonori

1822–1895 (age 73)

Yanaka Cemetery

Konakamura Kiyonori (1822–1895) was a Japanese politician during the Meiji period, buried at Yanaka Cemetery.

Ichijō Mikako

1835–1894 (age 59)

Yanaka Cemetery

Ichijō Mikako (一条美賀子; later Tokugawa Mikako 徳川 美賀子) was a Japanese noble woman and wife to Tokugawa...

Tomiji Hirano

1846–1892 (age 46)

Yanaka Cemetery

Tomiji Hirano (1846–1892) was a Japanese engineer from Tokyo who contributed to Japan's modernization during the Meiji...

Majima Fuyumichi

1827–1890 (age 63)

Yanaka Cemetery

Itō Keisuke

1803–1901 (age 98)

Yanaka Cemetery

Keisuke Ito (伊藤 圭介, Itō Keisuke; February 18, 1803 – January 20, 1901) was a Japanese physician and biologist...

Fukuchi Genichiro

1841–1906 (age 65)

Yanaka Cemetery

Fukuchi Genichiro was a screenwriter whose dramatic works shaped Japanese theater during the Meiji period.

Tsuda Mamichi

1829–1903 (age 74)

Yanaka Cemetery

Toshikata Mizuno

1866–1908 (age 42)

Yanaka Cemetery

Toshikata Mizuno was an artist whose works reflected the artistic innovations of the Meiji period.

Kishida Ginkō

1833–1905 (age 72)

Yanaka Cemetery

Shinmura Nobu

1852–1905 (age 53)

Yanaka Cemetery

Shinmura Nobu was a figure of the Meiji period whose life reflected the transformations of his era.

Jōno Saigiku

1832–1902 (age 70)

Yanaka Cemetery

Matsuda Hideo

1851–1906 (age 55)

Yanaka Cemetery

Matsuda Hideo was a politician whose career contributed to Japan's governmental modernization.

Obana Sakusuke

1829–1901 (age 72)

Yanaka Cemetery

Edward Howard House

1836–1901 (age 65)

Yanaka Cemetery

Edward Howard House (October 5, 1836 – December 18, 1901) was an American journalist who wrote for the New York Tribun...

Nicholas of Japan

1836–1912 (age 76)

Yanaka Cemetery

Nicholas of Japan was a 19th-century writer whose works contributed to Japanese intellectual and cultural discourse duri...

Tokugawa Yoshinobu

1837–1913 (age 76)

Yanaka Cemetery

Bin Ueda

1874–1916 (age 42)

Yanaka Cemetery

Bin Ueda was an early 20th-century Japanese writer whose literary works contributed to modern Japanese letters.

Arisaka Nariakira

1852–1915 (age 63)

Yanaka Cemetery

Arisaka Nariakira (1852-1915) was a Japanese military officer and firearms designer best known for developing the Arisak...

Kikuchi Dairoku

1855–1917 (age 62)

Yanaka Cemetery

Kikuchi Dairoku (1855-1917) was a Japanese mathematician and educator who served as Minister of Education and was the fi...

Kawakami Otojirō

1864–1911 (age 47)

Yanaka Cemetery

Kawakami Otojirō (1864-1911) was a pioneering Japanese theater actor and director who helped modernize kabuki and devel...

Aoyama Tanemichi

1859–1917 (age 58)

Yanaka Cemetery

Aoyama Tanemichi (1859-1917) was a Japanese military officer who served as a general in the Imperial Japanese Army durin...

Shigeno Yasutsugu

1827–1910 (age 83)

Yanaka Cemetery

Shigeno Yasutsugu (1827-1910) was a Japanese historian and official historiographer who contributed to the compilation o...

Ikeda Shōen

1886–1917 (age 31)

Yanaka Cemetery

Ikeda Shōen (1886-1917) was a Japanese painter known for her bijin-ga (paintings of beautiful women) in the nihonga sty...

Tanaka Yoshio

1838–1916 (age 78)

Yanaka Cemetery

Tanaka Yoshio (1838-1916) was a Japanese engineer and educator who helped establish technical education in Japan and ser...

Hitachiyama Taniemon

1874–1922 (age 48)

Yanaka Cemetery

A prominent rikishi in early twentieth-century professional sumo wrestling.

Kinoshita Rigen

1886–1925 (age 39)

Yanaka Cemetery

Masaharu Yoshida

1852–1921 (age 69)

Yanaka Cemetery

A journalist who contributed to the development of modern Japanese media during the Meiji period.

Shunichi Shimamura

1862–1923 (age 61)

Yanaka Cemetery

Satake Eison

1845–1922 (age 77)

Yanaka Cemetery

A painter who contributed to Japanese visual arts during the late Meiji and early Taishō periods.

Murata Tsuneyoshi

1838–1921 (age 83)

Yanaka Cemetery