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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 75,989 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Abe Masahiro is the 11,440th most popular politician (down from 10,602nd in 2019), the 937th most popular biography from Japan (down from 904th in 2019) and the 304th most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Abe Masahiro ranks 11,440 out of 15,577Before him are Leopold II, Prince of Lippe, Nadejda Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, Victor Boin, Alexander Mackenzie, José María Iglesias, and Sœur Emmanuelle. After him are Juan García Oliver, Dom Mintoff, Felix Hamrin, Elie Hobeika, Giancarlo Minardi, and Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, Abe Masahiro ranks 66Before him are James Russell Lowell, Vatroslav Lisinski, Edwin Drake, Théodore Gouvy, Nicolae Bălcescu, and Marthinus Wessel Pretorius. After him are Butrus al-Bustani, Pieter Bleeker, Martin Johnson Heade, Ernst Falkbeer, Samuel Brannan, and Louise Otto-Peters. Among people deceased in 1857, Abe Masahiro ranks 41Before him are William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst, Infanta Ana de Jesus Maria of Braganza, Manuel Oribe, Daniele Manin, Wei Yuan, and Johann Georg Hiedler. After him are Achille Devéria, Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Juan Lindo, Carl Ludwig Koch, Johann Schweigger, and Manuel José Quintana.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Abe Masahiro ranks 937 out of 6,048Before him are Matsudaira Sadanobu (1759), Kyōko Kagawa (1931), Hiroshi Katayama (1940), Mitsuo Kamata (1937), Toru Iwatani (1955), and Kazuki Takahashi (1961). After him are Nobuko Yoshiya (1896), Noriaki Kasai (1972), Uesugi Harunori (1751), Unkei (1151), Kanō Motonobu (1476), and Katsukawa Shunshō (1726).

Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Abe Masahiro ranks 304Before him are Ōmura Sumitada (1533), Sadako Ogata (1927), Sakuma Shōzan (1811), Konoe Sakihisa (1536), Tokugawa Nariaki (1800), and Matsudaira Sadanobu (1759). After him are Uesugi Harunori (1751), Sekiryo Kaneda (1901), Uchida Kōsai (1865), Sadakazu Tanigaki (1945), Ōmura Masujirō (1824), and Hisako, Princess Takamado (1953).