Background
Shichinai Saigusa was born in 1837, Kai Province (Yamanashi Prefecture), Japan.
Shichinai Saigusa was born in 1837, Kai Province (Yamanashi Prefecture), Japan.
Saigusa Shichinai studied under Atsutane Hirata, noted scholar of Shintoism and Japanese classics.
When a young man, he was appointed head of his village and, after the Meiji Restoration (1868), endeavored to reduce the land tax. Was elected chairman of the Yamanashi Prefectural Assembly.