“Choshu five” of five pieces of Ito Hirobumi is the article of page 2 yesterday in the Asahi to have entitled to be?.
It stows away on the United Kingdom in Bakumatsu during national isolation.
It learned and it made use of a technology for Japan.
The cenotaph of the Japanese relation formed in Last month, the London suburbs.
1863, 150 years before five pieces of Ito Hirobumi stowed away on the United Kingdom.
It is the honors tombstone of the professor husband and wife who was then made a guarantor to be full by.
Five were at the site called “a five ".
Is that “Five of Choshu?”
That is.
It is five youngsters who came from the Choshu feudal clan which is Yamaguchi Prefecture in now.
The Shogunate Government of Edo in those days was catching a seclusion policy.
The inside, the capital punishment, studied abroad at the risk of being desperate if tearing the prohibition and being found out.
With the newspaper of the United Kingdom in those days and so on, it was named so.
What purpose is it that there was?
It thought that it learned navy art in the United Kingdom behind the Industrial Revolution and that it let's fight equally to the Great Power various countries.
However, they boiled a lining steamship and a steam train a harbor in London with their own eyes.
The civilization was way beyond their imagination and they lost a word and they were stupefied.
It accepted British society?
It is Williamson professor in university college London (UCL) to have shed light on this time and Emma wives that fulfilled the function.
It told to five from the way of putting on clothes in addition to the learning and the English conversation to the manners of the meal.
The students studying abroad such as Satsuma ( Kagoshima ), too, accepted.
The result of the studying abroad is to have been?
As for five, from the half year to 5 years, it learned United Kingdom's railway and coinage, industrial technologies and so on.
A signature, too, is left at the visitor list at the Bank of England head office in London.
It made use of the experience and the knowledge which was so for after that Japan's modernization.
Ito Hirobumi became a prime minister in the first, Inoue Kaoru became the first Minister for Foreign Affairs and all five took the important post of Meiji government.
There was such a student studying abroad in the back of the Meiji restoration.
Newly, the Japanese student studying abroad who learns overseas is decreasing but to see more of life while young is valuable.
(Kato Katutoshi the newspaperman)
The translation is Akutagawa.
