Yamao Yōzō
| Yamao Yōzō | |
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Viscount Yamao Yōzō
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| Born |
November 5, 1837 Yamaguchi, Japan |
| Died | December 21, 1917 (aged 80) Tokyo, Japan |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Occupation | Engineer, Educator, Politician |
Viscount Yamao Yōzō (山尾 庸三?, November 5, 1837 – December 21, 1917) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who became an influential member of the Meiji era government of Japan.
Yamao was born in Aio-Futajima, a village in Chōshū domain (present day Yamaguchi city Yamaguchi prefecture), and had received the traditional training of a samurai at a private school in Edo. Together with Itō Hirobumi, he was a member of the Chōshū Five, smuggled out of Nagasaki in 1863 against the national seclusion laws of the Tokugawa bakufu to study in Great Britain.
Before being able to study at the University College London, the members of the Choshu Five studied English for a year. Two of his colleagues Itō Hirobumi and Inoue Kaoru returned to Japan to try and stop Chōshū domain going to war with the Western powers, but Yamao and two other remained and studied science and industry at University College London. After two years Yamao went to live in Glasgow between 1866 and 1868. During this period he lived in the home of Colin Brown, and worked at Napier's shipyard on the Clyde. At the same time he attended evening classes at Anderson's College (now the University of Strathclyde) together with Henry Dyer, although they did not become personally acquainted.
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