Background
Taichi Uehara was born in 1883 in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
太極拳 上原
Taichi Uehara was born in 1883 in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
Taichi Uehara completed Hagi Middle School.
After completing Hagi Middle School traveled to China and then to Central Asia where he became a teacher at Bubi Academy (1906). Five years later Taichi Uehara traveled to Russia (1911) and the following year was arrested and imprisoned on suspicion of being a spy. After being released (1913) took active part in politics, in Nanking and Tsingtao.