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Re: Please help identify the statue in Fukuoka

Posted By: Bill H
Posted Date: Sep 23, 2011 (01:22 AM)

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This guy has nothing to do with art as far as I can tell, but I found some web info describing this statue as being of Kuniomi (national statesman) Hirano (1828-1864), said to be a samurai in Fukuoka in the late Edo period, who helped instigate the overthrow of the Tokugawa shoguns but was killed before the job was finished.

Efforts to wring a decent English account of this historical figure out of Google proved beyond my abilities. I believe the third and fourth characters down on the pictured plaque also are a title, meaning something like 'the second', but my operative language skills are in Chinese, not Japanese, wherein the meanings often are different.

Hope this helps,

Bill H.

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