Tōyama Shinaemon

Tōyama Shinaemon
遠山 品右衛門
Personal details
BornTōyama Rikichi (遠山 里吉)
June 17, 1851
Noguchi, Matsumoto Domain, Shinano Province, Japan
DiedAugust 28, 1920(1920-08-28) (aged 69)
Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Tōyama Shinaemon (Japanese: 遠山 品右衛門; 1851–1920) was a Japanese hunter and mountain guide.[1] He was also a master angler.[2]

Biography

Tōyama was born in the Matsumoto Domain village of Noguchi. With the abolition of the han system in 1871, the neighboring Kaga Domain's forestry patrols in the mountains of Etchū were discontinued. Now free to enter the mountains, 20-year-old Tōyama began a lifestyle of subsistence hunting. Around 1875, he built a cabin on the Kurobe River.[1]

In 1878, Tōyama was visited by Ernest Satow and A. G. S. Hawes.

In 1899, the Japanese government began charging a regular tax on privately owned structures within national forests. Tōyama was able to pay this tax in order to retain ownership of his cabin. In his later years, he abandoned the cabin and returned to Noguchi village.

Tōyama died at his home on August 28, 1920.[1] Many of Tōyama's belongings, including his hunting tools, are preserved at the Ōmachi Alpine Museum in Ōmachi.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "北アルプス 山人たちの系譜 嘉門次、品右衛門、喜作、登場の背景" (PDF). 市立大町山岳博物館 Ōmachi Alpine Museum. Retrieved 30 December 2025.
  2. ↑ 甲山 Kōyama, 五一 Goichi (1983). 釣り師遠山品右衛門 Tsurishi Tōyama Shinaemon. Japan: アテネ書房 Athens Shobō. ISBN 978-4871521048.
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