Background
Suzuki Shigene was born in Surugadai, Edo (now Tokyo, Japan) 1814. He was the son of a Shogunate retainer.
重嶺 鈴木
Suzuki Shigene was born in Surugadai, Edo (now Tokyo, Japan) 1814. He was the son of a Shogunate retainer.
Appointed Magistrate of Sado Island (1865) and chief of the Armory (1867). After the Meiji Restoration (1868), he was appomted an administrator in Hamamatsu (Shizuoka Prefecture) and Aikawa Sado Island.
He was talented in martial arts and studied waka under Soko Murayama and, after Soko's death under Katahide Iba. Also enjoyed fame as a waka poet and had over 200 pupils.