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Abe Masahiro

1819 - 1857

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Abe Masahiro (阿部 正弘; December 3, 1819 – August 6, 1857) was the chief senior councilor (rōjū) in the Tokugawa shogunate of the Bakumatsu period at the time of the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry on his mission to open Japan to the outside world. Abe was instrumental in the eventual signing of the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854. Abe did not sign the treaty himself or participate in the negotiations in person; this was done by his plenipotentiary Hayashi Akira. His courtesy title was Ise-no-kami. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abe Masahiro is the 12,683rd most popular politician (down from 11,752nd in 2019), the 1,071st most popular biography from Japan (down from 975th in 2019) and the 303rd most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abe Masahiro ranks 12,683 out of 19,576. Before him are Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Ivan Smirnov, Coenwulf of Mercia, Ziaelas of Bithynia, Egbert II, Margrave of Meissen, and James III, Margrave of Baden-Hachberg. After him are Quintus Servilius Caepio, Pieter van Vollenhoven, Johan Wilhelm Rangell, Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, Carlos Vila Nova, and Yaa Asantewaa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Abe Masahiro ranks 70. Before him are Edwin Drake, Théodore Gouvy, James Russell Lowell, Władysław Taczanowski, Nicolae Bălcescu, and Lucile Grahn. After him are Friedrich von Bodenstedt, Maria Wodzińska, Henri Harpignies, Constant Fornerod, Joseph-Alfred Serret, and Joaquín Jovellar y Soler. Among people deceased in 1857, Abe Masahiro ranks 50. Before him are Johann Friedrich Naumann, Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Wei Yuan, Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy, Juan Lindo, and Johann Schweigger. After him are Frederick Scott Archer, Elisha Kent Kane, Johann Georg Hiedler, Stefano Franscini, Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer, and Karol Kurpiński.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Abe Masahiro ranks 1,071 out of 6,245. Before him are Uemura Shōen (1875), Koji Tanaka (1955), Mitsuru Komaeda (1950), Tetsuya Chiba (1939), Ryōtarō Shiba (1923), and Hiroyuki Sakashita (1959). After him are Rentarō Mikuni (1923), Edwin O. Reischauer (1910), Hiroshi Ochiai (1946), Morihiro Saito (1928), Ninomiya Sontoku (1787), and Chieko Baisho (1941).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Abe Masahiro ranks 303. Before him are Tokugawa Nariaki (1800), Sanjō Sanetomi (1837), Kiyoura Keigo (1850), Sadako Ogata (1927), Konoe Sakihisa (1536), and Uesugi Harunori (1751). After him are Sekiryo Kaneda (1901), Ichirō Ozawa (1942), Ōmura Masujirō (1824), Shigeru Kayano (1926), Masayoshi Ito (1913), and Saigō Jūdō (1843).

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