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ENOMOTO, BUYO, VISCOUNT (1839-1909)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 652 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ENOMOTO, BUYO, See also:VISCOUNT (1839-1909) , See also:Japanese See also:vice-See also:admiral, was See also:born in See also:Tokyo. He was the first officer sent by the See also:Tokugawa See also:government to study See also:naval See also:science in See also:Europe, andafter going through a course of instruction in See also:Holland he returned in command of the See also:frigate " Kaiyo Maru," built at See also:Amsterdam to See also:order of the Yedo See also:administration. The salient See also:episode of his career was an See also:attempt to establish a See also:republic at See also:Hakodate. Finding himself in command of a See also:squadron which represented practically the whole of See also:Japan's naval forces, he refused to acquiesce in the deposition of the See also:Shogun, his See also:liege See also:lord, and, steaming off to See also:Yezo (1867), proclaimed a republic and fortified Hakodate. But he was soon compelled to surrender. The newly organized government of the See also:empire, however, instead of inflicting the See also:death See also:penalty on him and his See also:principal followers, as would have been the inevitable sequel of such a See also:drama in previous times, punished them with imprisonment only, and four years after the Hakodate episode, Enomoto received an important See also:post in See also:Hokkaido, the very See also:scene of his See also:wild attempt. Subsequently (1874), as his See also:country's representative in St See also:Petersburg, he concluded the treaty by which Japan exchanged the See also:southern See also:half of Saghalien for the See also:Kuriles. He received the See also:title of viscount in 1885, and afterwards held the portfolios of communications, See also:education and See also:foreign affairs. He died at Tokyo in 1909.

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