Background
Shigeno Yasutsugu was born on November 24, 1827 in Kagoshima, Japan. He was a son of a samurai of the Satsuma Clan.
重野 安繹
Shigeno Yasutsugu was born on November 24, 1827 in Kagoshima, Japan. He was a son of a samurai of the Satsuma Clan.
Shigeno studied at the Shoheiko (Shogunate college) in Edo (present Tokyo) and was appointed an instructor of the Zoshikan School of his clan.
Shigeno Yasutsugu was a member of the delegation of the clan which negotiated peace after the bombardment of Kagoshima by British warships in 1863.
He became an official of the Education Ministry and was appointed deputy chief of the History Compilation Bureau. In 1877 Yasutsugu was appointed a compiler first class. By order of Hisamitsu Shimazu, he compiled a series of history books "Kocho Seikan". After that he served a member of the Senate, professor at Tokyo University and member of the House of Peers.
He acquired the nickname of Massatsu Hakase (Doctor of Obliteration) for refuting well-known historical incidents such as the tragic parting of Masashige Kusunoki from his son, Masatsura, at Sakurai, for lack of historical evidence.
(He wrote a foreword.)