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Hirata Gyokuun

1787–1855 (age 68)

Jikō-ji Temple

Hirata Gyokuun was an Edo period painter whose refined works contributed to Japanese artistic traditions.

Egawa Hidetatsu

1801–1855 (age 54)

Honryū-ji Temple

Chiba Shusaku Narimasa

1793–1855 (age 62)

Honmyō-ji Temple

Chiba Shusaku Narimasa was a bushi who lived during the late Edo period.

Ishii Shūzō

1829–1857 (age 28)

Honryū-ji Temple

Ichikawa Beian

1779–1858 (age 79)

Hongyō-ji Temple

Ichikawa Beian was an accomplished calligrapher of the Edo period.

Shibukawa Kagesuke

1787–1856 (age 69)

Tōkai-ji Temple

Ōoka Tadayoshi

1807–1857 (age 50)

Jōken-ji Temple

Ōoka Tadayoshi was a figure of the late Edo period.

Shimazu Nariakira

1809–1858 (age 49)

Fukushō-ji

Ajima Nobutatsu

1811–1859 (age 48)

Sakado Public Cemetery

Ajima Nobutatsu was a nineteenth-century figure who lived through Japan's transformative era.

Toda Chūdayū

1804–1855 (age 51)

Sakado Public Cemetery

Rai Mikisaburō

1825–1859 (age 34)

Chōraku-ji Temple

Rai Mikisaburō was a mid-nineteenth-century calligrapher.

Yoshida Jakusōan

1805–1859 (age 54)

Nanatsu-dera Temple

Ikeda Nakanori

1805–1850 (age 45)

Tottori Domain Ikeda clan cemetery

Ikeda Nakanori was a member of the prominent Tottori Domain Ikeda clan.

Takami Senseki

1785–1858 (age 73)

Shōrin-ji Temple

Ōhashi Tanga

1788–1853 (age 65)

Tennō-ji Temple

Ōhashi Tanga was a late Edo period figure.

Tani Bunji

1812–1850 (age 38)

Genkū-ji Temple

Kunisada Chūji

1810–1851 (age 41)

Zennō-ji Temple

Kunisada Chūji was a nineteenth-century figure who lived through Japan's transformative period.

Ninomiya Sontoku

1787–1856 (age 69)

Hōtoku Ninomiya Shrine

Utagawa Hiroshige

1797–1858 (age 61)

Tōgaku-ji Temple

Utagawa Hiroshige was a renowned Edo period painter and printmaker celebrated for his influential landscape works.

Ashinoya Omiichi

1803–1855 (age 52)

Tentoku-ji Temple

Shimada Toranosuke

1810–1852 (age 42)

Shōjō-ji Temple

A celebrated Japanese swordmaster of the late Edo period who exemplified the samurai tradition of martial excellence.

池尻暉房

1762–1852 (age 90)

Hōon-ji Temple

Inagaki Nagaakira

1830–1866 (age 36)

Isesaki

A figure from the late Edo period associated with the Isesaki region during Japan's era of transformation.

Tokugawa Iemochi

1846–1866 (age 20)

Zōjō-ji Temple

Hashimoto Tsuneko

1826–1865 (age 39)

Zōjō-ji Temple

A woman of the late Edo period whose life coincided with Japan's transition to the modern era.

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.

Haruki Nanka

1818–1866 (age 48)

Tama Cemetery

Mitsukuri Genpo

1799–1863 (age 64)

Tama Cemetery

A physician of the late Edo period who dedicated his life to healing and medical practice.

Sagara Sōzō

1839–1868 (age 29)

Aoyama Cemetery

Otokichi

1817–1867 (age 50)

Mihama

A Japanese sailor whose maritime career spanned the transformative final decades of the Edo period.

Iwase Tadanari

1818–1861 (age 43)

Zōshigaya Cemetery

Oguri Tadamasa

1827–1868 (age 41)

Zōshigaya Cemetery

A politician of the late Edo and early Meiji periods who contributed to Japan's political transformation.

Nukina Sūō

1778–1863 (age 85)

Kōdai-ji Temple

Ichikawa Kodanji IV

1812–1866 (age 54)

Ikegami Honmon-ji Temple

A celebrated kabuki actor of the late Edo period who exemplified the artistry and tradition of Japanese theater.

Hirano Kuniomi

1828–1864 (age 36)

Kyoto Ryōzen-Gokoku Shrine

Emperor Kōmei

1831–1867 (age 36)

Tsuki no wa no misasagi

The 121st Emperor of Japan whose reign encompassed the nation's dramatic transition from feudalism to modernity.

Oda Kaisen

1785–1862 (age 77)

Ōbai-in

San'yūtei Enshō II

1806–1862 (age 56)

Zenshō-an Temple

A master rakugoka whose performances exemplified the classical Japanese storytelling tradition of the late Edo period.

Maki Yasuomi

1813–1864 (age 51)

Mount Tennōzan

Charles Lennox Richardson

1834–1862 (age 28)

Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery

British businessperson in Yokohama who died in 1862.

Henry Edward Hoey

d. 1869

Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery

George Walter Baldwin

1864–1864 (age 0)

Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery

Military personnel buried in Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery.

Robert Nicholas Bird

1841–1864 (age 23)

Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery

Nakayama Tadamitsu

1845–1864 (age 19)

Nakayama Shrine

Japanese individual who lived from 1845 to 1864.

Kiyokawa Hachirō

1830–1863 (age 33)

Denzū-in Temple

Ichiryūsai Yoshitoyo

1830–1866 (age 36)

Moto-Asakusa

Japanese painter (1830-1866) buried at Moto-Asakusa.

Takashima Shūhan

1798–1866 (age 68)

Daien-ji Temple

Yokoi Shōnan

1809–1869 (age 60)

Tenju-an

Japanese politician (1809-1869) who influenced reform during the Meiji transition.

Kayano Gonbei

1828–1869 (age 41)

Tennei-ji Temple