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Shozan Sakuma, a master of Sakamoto Ryoma and Kaishu Katsu.
It's April from today. The cherry blossoms began to bloom yesterday, so I walked around Chuo-ku.
My hobby is history. I especially like late Tokugawa shogunate.
When I live in Yokosuka, I see the land related to Shozan Sakuma in Uraga every day. When you get off at Uraga Station in Keikyu, you will see the big face of Shozan Sakuma drawn by a local junior high school student.
Today, I went to Kibiki-cho in Ginza and went to the information board of Shozan Sakuma's Western artillery school.
The masters are full of names from late Tokugawa shogunate such as Kaishu Katsu, Yoshida Shoin, Jinnosuke Kawai and Sanai Hashimoto. There was also the name of Sakamoto Ryoma.
Chuo-ku has been the center of Japan since the Edo period.
There is a theory that Sakamoto Ryoma came to Edo not to practice swordsmanship, but to practice Western artillery.
It is Chuo-ku where you can meet the history of late Tokugawa shogunate by walking.