Sakamoto Ryōma

Sakamoto Ryōma

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sakamoto Ryōma has received more than 1,325,990 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Sakamoto Ryōma is the 85th most popular social activist (down from 77th in 2019), the 105th most popular biography from Japan (down from 101st 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.