Background
Takayama Shigeki was born in Kozuke (Gumma Prefecture) in 1835, of a long line of Shinto priests.
茂樹 高山
Takayama Shigeki was born in Kozuke (Gumma Prefecture) in 1835, of a long line of Shinto priests.
He was a scholar of the Chinese classics and could speak French and Dutch. Is credited with founding the first elementary school in Tokyo. Later headed and taught at the Japanese Classics Research Institute.