Background
Toin Shionoya was born in 1809 in Tokyo, Japan.
塩谷
Toin Shionoya was born in 1809 in Tokyo, Japan.
Toin Shionoya studied at the Shoheiko (the Shogunate college), under Kodo Matsuzaki.
Toin Shionoya was reputed as the best writer of Chinese. He was appointed a Shogunate's jukan (scholar of Confucian learning) (1862). He was also an adviser to Tadakuni Mizuno, Lord of Hamamatsu.