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Episode 433 - The Wrong Kind of Hero, Part 1

History of Japan

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The Sakamoto Goshi

Sakamoto, rioma himself was born in 18 36 in colchi. His father, saka moto na tati, and mother ko had fivech in total. At the age of 11, this youngest child was enrolled at one of the many private schools for samurai and cochi. He was, by all accounts, not at all gifted for book learning, and ended up leaving the school shortly after joining. A disinterest in academia was somewhat of a standard throughout his life. Later in life, sakamoto would develop an interest in dutch learning, as it was called, western ideas,. But he never picked up more than few words of the language.

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