Tsuda Sanzo

Tsuda Sanzo

Tsuda Sanzō ( Japanese 津 田 三 蔵; born February 25, 1855 ( traditionally : Ansei 1/12/29) in Shitaya, Edo (today: Taitō , Tokyo ); † September 30, 1891 in Kushiro ) was a Japanese policeman who failed a Carried out an assassination attempt on the later Tsar Nicholas II .

Tsuda came from a samurai family who had served the daimyōs of Tsu in Iga in hereditary capacity as doctors for generations . After attending school, where he learned Chinese and military theory, he joined the army in 1872 and fought against the insurgents during the Satsuma rebellion . He was honored for his services and promoted to NCO. In 1882 he had to leave the army and first became a policeman in Mie Prefecture and later in Shiga . He has been described as unsociable and a man of few words.

On May 11, 1891, he carried out an assassination attempt on the Russian heir to the throne, Nicholas , who was visiting Japan. The heir to the throne survived the assassination attempt, known as the Ōtsu incident . Tsuda was sentenced to life imprisonment. The question of whether the death penalty should be applied to him led to political entanglements.

Tsuda Sanzō died on September 30, 1891 Kushiro to pneumonia . There is no evidence that his death was due to deliberately bad treatment.

literature

• Donald Keene: Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 . Columbia University Press, New York 2003, ISBN 0-231-12340-X .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 関 井 光 男:津 田 三 蔵. In:朝日 日本 歴 史 人物 事 典at kotobank.jp. Asahi Shimbun Shuppan, accessed December 25, 2011 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ Donald Keene: Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 . New York 2003, p. 454.
3. ↑ Donald Keene: Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 . New York 2003, p. 457, note 23.

Japanese name: As is customary in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Tsuda is the family name, Sanzō the first name.