Background
Edayoshi Shinyo was born in 1822 in Hizen Province (Saga Prefecture), he was a retainer of the Saga Clan. His given name was Tsunetane.
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Edayoshi Shinyo
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Education
He studied at the Shoheiko, the Shogunate college, in Edo.
Career
Returning home, he was appointed by his lord instructor of classical literature for young retainers. A pro-imperial since when young, he caused a small shrine to be built in the precinct of the Hachimari Shrine in Saga as a tribute to two pro-imperial warriors, Masashige Kusunoki and his son, Masatsura. When Commodore Perry’s fleet arrived in Japan in 1853, he sent his younger brother, Taneomi Soejima to Kyoto, on a mission of conferring with Shigetomi Ohara on plans to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate. The results of the conference were to be reported to Prince Shoren-in. The plan, however, failed as Taneomi was put under house arrest.
