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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abe Masahiro has received more than 83,283 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Abe Masahiro is the 11,754th most popular politician (down from 11,406th in 2019), the 975th most popular biography from Japan (down from 934th in 2019) and the 304th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abe Masahiro ranks 11,754 out of 19,576Before him are Abdullah al-Sallal, Augusto B. Leguía, Silvan Shalom, Eberhard I, Count of Württemberg, Aleksandër Meksi, and Hetephernebti. After him are Hippolyte Carnot, Romuald Traugutt, Nicolae Bălcescu, Yusuf III of Granada, Cristóbal Mendoza, and Margherita Maria Farnese.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Abe Masahiro ranks 66Before him are Edwin Drake, Pieter Bleeker, Butrus al-Bustani, Maria Wodzińska, Cyrus West Field, and Lucile Grahn. After him are Nicolae Bălcescu, Alexandru G. Golescu, Martin Johnson Heade, Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, Théodore Gouvy, and James Russell Lowell. Among people deceased in 1857, Abe Masahiro ranks 43Before him are Agustina de Aragón, Johann Jakob Heckel, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, Carl Ludwig Koch, Johann Georg Hiedler, and Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy. After him are Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Wei Yuan, Frederick Scott Archer, Juan Lindo, Johann Friedrich Naumann, and Johann Schweigger.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Abe Masahiro ranks 975 out of 6,245Before him are Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), Sayako Kuroda (1969), Hiroshi Ninomiya (1937), Akashi Motojiro (1864), Ennin (793), and Kazuo Koike (1936). After him are Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Hiromu Arakawa (1973), Shinji Mikami (1965), Machiko Hasegawa (1920), Misuzu Kaneko (1903), and Yoko Shimada (1953).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Abe Masahiro ranks 304Before him are Kabayama Sukenori (1837), Sadako Ogata (1927), Konoe Sakihisa (1536), Saigō Jūdō (1843), Sakuma Shōzan (1811), and Tokugawa Nariaki (1800). After him are Makino Nobuaki (1861), Ōmura Masujirō (1824), Uchida Kōsai (1865), Ichirō Ozawa (1942), Sekiryo Kaneda (1901), and Uesugi Harunori (1751).