Chiba Takusaburō
—also known as Chiba Takuron—lived as an obscure liberal political activist and schoolteacher in the late Edo period, Tokugawa, early Meiji period. In his younger years, Takusaburō studied Confucian, Buddhist, Christian and Methodist thought. In his later years, Takusaburō devoted his life in disseminating the importance of liberty and rights for the people. His numerous texts include the draft constitution in 1880 (influenced by texts regarding English, German and American models of governmental structure), ''The Institutional Maxims of Chiba Takusaburō'', ''Treatise on the Kingly Way'', and ''On the Futility of Book Learning''. Takusaburō died in late 1883 after a long battle with tuberculosis.Daikichi Irokawa, ''The Culture of the Meiji Period'', (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985), Ch.3. Chiba Takusaburō attempted to bring forth a Grassroots, "grass roots" society, driven by the people. Chiba is emblematic of how the revolutionary spirit, more frequently ...
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