Category: Yamaji Aizan
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Aizan’s Early Life
Yamaji Yakichi – Aizan was a pen name he adopted when he was around twenty years old – was born in 1864 in the mansion of the Astronomical Institute of the Tokugawa shogunate located in Edo. The Yamaji were one of the four families that held the hereditary post of official astronomers to the…
山路愛山 Yamaji Aizan 