Takano Chōei
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- In this Japanese name, the family name is Takano.
Takano Chōei (高野 長英? 1804-50) was a prominent scholar of Rangaku of the late Edo period.
He was born a son of a doctor in Mizusawa Domain of Mutsu Province (present-day Iwate Prefecture). After learning medicine in Edo he studied under Philipp Franz von Siebold in Nagasaki. In 1838 he published a book critical of the Tokugawa shogunate's handling of Morrison Incident (1837). For this he was sentenced to death. In 1844 he escaped prison and kept hiding with a false identity. When he returned to Edo he was found by the shoguante and committed suicide.
His works include:
- Military: Tactics of the Prussian army (三兵答古知幾? 1850)
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- 旺文社 日本史辞典
