Chiba Takusaburō, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Chiba Takusaburō

Japanese politician

Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1852

Date of Death: 12-Nov-1883

Profession: samurai

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Chiba Takusaburo (?? ???, 17 June 1852 – 12 November 1883)—also known as Chiba Takuron—lived as an obscure liberal political activist and schoolteacher in the late Tokugawa, early Meiji period.
In his younger years, Takusaburo studied Confucian, Buddhist, Christian and Methodist thought.
In his later years, Takusaburo devoted his life in disseminating the importance of liberty and rights for the people.
His numerous texts include the draft constitution in 1880 (influenced by texts regarding English, German and American models of governmental structure), The Institutional Maxims of Chiba Takusaburo, Treatise on the Kingly Way, and On the Futility of Book Learning.
Takusaburo died in late 1883 after a long battle with tuberculosis.
Chiba Takusaburo attempted to bring forth a "grass roots" society, driven by the people.
Chiba is emblematic of how the revolutionary spirit, more frequently attributed to men like Itagaki Taisuke, Okuma Shigenobu and Fukuzawa Yukichi, was existent in even low ranking samurai during the Freedom and People's Rights Movement or Jiyu Minken Undo.