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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sakamoto Ryōma has received more than 1,457,877 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Sakamoto Ryōma is the 74th most popular social activist (up from 85th in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from Japan (up from 105th 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 74 out of 840. Before him are Bhagat Singh, Jenny von Westphalen, Buenaventura Durruti, Dominique Pire, Aleksandr Ulyanov, and Horst Wessel. After him are Widukind, Gerald Durrell, Axel Munthe, Rashid ad-Din Sinan, Dragutin Dimitrijević, and Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1836, Sakamoto Ryōma ranks 9. Before him are Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Léo Delibes, Sophia of Nassau, Ferdinand Cheval, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, and Lawrence Alma-Tadema. After him are Marie Henriette of Austria, Henri Fantin-Latour, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Jules Chéret, Hassan I of Morocco, and James Tissot. Among people deceased in 1867, Sakamoto Ryōma ranks 9. Before him are Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Maximilian I of Mexico, Emperor Kōmei, Franz Bopp, Théodore Rousseau, and Otto of Greece. After him are Jean-Victor Poncelet, Maria Theresa of Austria, Victor Cousin, Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxis, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, and Princess Sophie of Saxony.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sakamoto Ryōma ranks 87 out of 6,245. Before him are Jiro Horikoshi (1903), Tōgō Heihachirō (1848), Yoshihide Suga (1948), Kiichiro Toyoda (1894), Himiko (175), and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga (1906). After him are Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952), Joe Hisaishi (1950), Tadamichi Kuribayashi (1891), Kōbō Abe (1924), Kūkai (774), and Emperor Itoku (-553).

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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), Kōtoku Shūsui (1871), Ninomiya Sontoku (1787), Toyohiko Kagawa (1888), Ōsugi Sakae (1885), Gotō Shōjirō (1838), Megumi Yokota (1964), and Akira Amano (1973).

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