Tōkai Sanshi

Tōkai Sanshi

Tōkai Sanshi ( Japanese 東海 散 士 ; real name: 柴 四 朗 , Shiba Shirō ; * December 2, 1852 , † September 25, 1922 ) was a Japanese politician and writer.

Shiba Shirō, who became known as a writer under the name Tōkai Sanshi, came from a samurai family and in 1868 took part on the Tokugawa side in the battle of Toba-Fushimi , in which he lost his family and was himself taken prisoner. In 1879 he went to the USA and first attended a business school in San Francisco. He later studied political science and economics at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania .

After his return he wrote the political novel Kajin no Kugū between 1885 and 1897 , which was first published in sequels and then in an eight-volume complete edition and became a bestseller, especially among the educated youth of Japan.

His experiences from his stay in the USA and from a trip to Europe in 1886 as secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Trade Tani Kanjō flowed into the work . As a member of parliament ( Kokkai ; since 1892) he campaigned for a foreign policy course guided by national interests.

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• Rebecca E. Karl: "Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" , Duke University Press, 2002, ISBN 9780822328674 , p. 373
• Chieko Irie Mulhern: "Kōda Rohan" , Ardent Media, 1977, ISBN 9780805762723 , pp. 33-34
• Chu Trinh Phan: "Phan Châu Trinh and His Political Writings" , SEAP Publications, 2009, ISBN 9780877277491 , p. 29 ff

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Tōkai is the family name, Sanshi the first name.