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Tani Tateki
Summary
was a statesman and lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army in Meiji period Japan. He was also known as Tani Kanjō.
Tani was born in Kubokawa village, Tosa Province (present-day Shimanto town, Kōchi Prefecture) as the 4th son of a Confucian scholar. All three of his elder brothers died in childhood, and he was given to his uncle to be raised as an upper-class samurai in the service of the Yamauchi clan. His abilities were soon noted by clan officials,a and he was sent for further studies in Edo in 1859. While in Edo, he studied under Yasui Sokken and other leading Confucian scholars, and returned to Tosa in 1861. In 1862, he was appointed an instructor at the Chidōkan, the han school; however, he also became involved in the local Sonnō jōi movement led by Takechi Hanpeita. He was one of the members of Takechi's followers implicated in the assassination of Yoshida Tōyō. Following Takechi's arrest and execution, he was out of favor until 1865, when he was allowed to resume his duties at the Chidōkan. In 1866, he was ordered by his domain to go to Nagasaki, where he met Gotō Shōjirō and Sakamoto Ryōma, who gradually convinced him of the futility of attempting to preserve Japan's national isolation policy. In 1867, he made a secret trip to Shanghai, where he observed first-hand the military superiority of the western powers and the possible fate which awaited Japan. After his return, he agreed to work with Saigō Takamori, whom he med in Edo the following year, and to work for an alliance between Tosa and Satsuma.
From 1868, Tani fought in the Boshin War to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate, beginning with the Battle of Toba-Fushimi, the Battle of Kōshū-Katsunuma and continuing with the Battle of Aizu. In 1869, he was appointed a junior councilor, and spent the next three years in Tosa, reforming the clan's government, while his fellow clansmen, Itagaki Taisuke and Gotō Shōjirō remained in Tokyo. He spoke out strongly against the profligate spending of the Tosa delegation in Tokyo and enacted cost reduction measures, which enraged Gotō, who had Tani removed.
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