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was a former yoriki
Yoriki

were members of various government branch offices during the the Edo period. Literally meaning "to give help", yoriki were assistant to samurais in higher positions during military campaigns at earlier times....
 (a lower class govenment official) and a Neo-Confucianism scholar of Oyomei
Wang Yangming

Wang Yangming was a Ming Dynasty idealist Neo-Confucian philosopher, official, educationist, calligraphist and general. After Zhu Xi, he is commonly regarded as the most important Neo-Confucian thinker, with interpretations of Confucianism that denied the rationalist dualism of the Orthodoxy philosophy of Zhu Xi....
 (Wang Yangming) school in Osaka
Osaka

is a Cities of Japan in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshu.Osaka is a City designated by government ordinance under the Local Autonomy Law and the capital city of Osaka Prefecture....
. He is best remembered for his fierce opposition to the Tokugawa shogunate
Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the , and the , was a feudalism regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family....
. Oshio served as a shogunal police officer for much of his life, until he found the newly appointed head of Osaka bugyo
Bugyo

, often translated as "commissioner" or "magistrate" or "governor," was a title assigned to government officers in pre-modern Japan; other terms would be added to the title to describe more specifically a given commissioner's tasks or jurisdiction....
 (one of shogun
Shogun

is a military rank and historical title for Hereditary Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces of Japan. The Japanese word for "general", it is made up of two kanji characters: sho, meaning "commander", "general", or "admiral", and gun meaning military troops or warriors....
's officials; the city magistrate) so hopelessly corrupted and resigned. After resignition, he opened a school of his own and put much of his efforts in teaching his followers.






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was a former yoriki
Yoriki

were members of various government branch offices during the the Edo period. Literally meaning "to give help", yoriki were assistant to samurais in higher positions during military campaigns at earlier times....
 (a lower class govenment official) and a Neo-Confucianism scholar of Oyomei
Wang Yangming

Wang Yangming was a Ming Dynasty idealist Neo-Confucian philosopher, official, educationist, calligraphist and general. After Zhu Xi, he is commonly regarded as the most important Neo-Confucian thinker, with interpretations of Confucianism that denied the rationalist dualism of the Orthodoxy philosophy of Zhu Xi....
 (Wang Yangming) school in Osaka
Osaka

is a Cities of Japan in Japan, located at the mouth of the Yodo River on Osaka Bay, in the Kansai region of the main island of Honshu.Osaka is a City designated by government ordinance under the Local Autonomy Law and the capital city of Osaka Prefecture....
. He is best remembered for his fierce opposition to the Tokugawa shogunate
Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the , and the , was a feudalism regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family....
. Oshio served as a shogunal police officer for much of his life, until he found the newly appointed head of Osaka bugyo
Bugyo

, often translated as "commissioner" or "magistrate" or "governor," was a title assigned to government officers in pre-modern Japan; other terms would be added to the title to describe more specifically a given commissioner's tasks or jurisdiction....
 (one of shogun
Shogun

is a military rank and historical title for Hereditary Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces of Japan. The Japanese word for "general", it is made up of two kanji characters: sho, meaning "commander", "general", or "admiral", and gun meaning military troops or warriors....
's officials; the city magistrate) so hopelessly corrupted and resigned. After resignition, he opened a school of his own and put much of his efforts in teaching his followers. During times of famine in 1836 he petitioned the magistrate of to help the starving citizens. After this was refused, Oshio sold his own books to buy food for the suffering. As a student of Wang Yangming, who taught that in times of crisis men must follow their intuition rather than their institution, Oshio released a manifesto charging the bugyo with moral corruption. He then led an army of peasants into the city in 1837. They managed to burn about a quarter of the city before government troops put down the rebellion. Months later, Oshio committed suicide when he was found by the authorities. The novelist Mori Ogai
Mori Ogai

was a Japanese physician, translator, novelist and poet. is considered his major work....
, active during after the Meiji Restoration
Meiji Restoration

The , also known as the Meiji Ishin, Revolution, or Renewal, was a chain of events that led to enormous changes in Japan's political and social structure....
, wrote an eponymous novella on Oshio Heihachiro, which was published in January 1914.