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Sakamoto Ryōma

1836 - 1867

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Sakamoto Ryōma (坂本龍馬 or 坂本竜馬; 3 January 1836 – 10 December 1867) was a Japanese samurai, a shishi and influential figure of the Bakumatsu, and establishment of the Empire of Japan in the late Edo period. Sakamoto was a low-ranking samurai from the Tosa Domain on Shikoku and became an active opponent of the Tokugawa Shogunate after the end of Japan's sakoku isolationist policy. Under the alias Saitani Umetarō (才谷梅太郎), he worked against the Bakufu, the government of the Tokugawa shogunate, and was often hunted by their supporters and the Shinsengumi. Sakamoto advocated for democracy, Japanese nationalism, return of power to the Imperial Court, abolition of feudalism, and moderate modernization and industrialization of Japan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sakamoto Ryōma is the 51st most popular social activist (up from 75th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Japan (up from 87th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Social Activist.

Sakamoto Ryōma was a samurai and politician of the Bakumatsu period. He is most famous for his role in the 1866 coup d'état against the Tokugawa shogunate, which led to the Meiji Restoration.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sakamoto Ryōma ranks 51 out of 840. Before him are Bhagat Singh, Alfred Hermann Fried, Thomas Müntzer, Sophie Scholl, Emma Goldman, and Emmeline Pankhurst. After him are Pheidippides, Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Hassan al-Banna, Harriet Tubman, Witold Pilecki, and Yemelyan Pugachev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Sakamoto Ryōma ranks 6. Before him are Ramakrishna, Wilhelm Steinitz, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, Léo Delibes, and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. After him are Sophia of Nassau, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Henri Fantin-Latour, Ferdinand Cheval, Marie Henriette of Austria, and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. Among people deceased in 1867, Sakamoto Ryōma ranks 7. Before him are Michael Faraday, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Charles Baudelaire, Maximilian I of Mexico, Otto of Greece, and Emperor Kōmei. After him are Théodore Rousseau, Franz Bopp, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Maria Theresa of Austria, Prince William of Hesse-Kassel, and Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sakamoto Ryōma ranks 48 out of 6,245. Before him are Sasaki Kojirō (1583), Osamu Tezuka (1928), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Minamoto no Yoritomo (1147), Morihei Ueshiba (1883), and Akira Toriyama (1955). After him are Takeshi Kitano (1947), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Takeda Shingen (1521), Yasujirō Ozu (1903), Emperor Ninkō (1800), and Emperor Kōkaku (1771).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Japan

Among social activists born in Japan, Sakamoto Ryōma ranks 2. Before him are Sadako Sasaki (1943). After him are Ishikawa Goemon (1558), Otoya Yamaguchi (1943), Itagaki Taisuke (1837), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), Ninomiya Sontoku (1787), Kōtoku Shūsui (1871), Gotō Shōjirō (1838), Ōsugi Sakae (1885), Megumi Yokota (1964), and Akira Amano (1973).

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