Chōshū Five (nonfiction)

Clockwise from top left: Endō Kinsuke, Nomura Yakichi, Itō Shunsuke, Yamao Yōzō, and Inoue Monta, photographed in 1863.

The Chōshū Five (長州五傑 Chōshū Goketsu) were members of the Chōshū han of western Japan who travelled to England in 1863 to study at University College London.

The five students were the first of many successive groups of Japanese students who travelled overseas in the late Bakumatsu and early Meiji eras.

All five students later rose to prominent positions in Japanese political and civil life.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links:

• Chōshū Five @ Wikipedia