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2 unusual facts about Shiba Gorō


Shiba Gorō

As a colonel in 1900, Shiba was military attaché at the Japanese legation during the Boxer Rebellion.

His brother, Shiba Shirō, under the pen name Tokai Sanshi, was also famous during the mid-Meiji period, as the author of "Chance Encounters with Beautiful Women" (Kajin no Kigu), a fictionalized account of his time as a student at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.



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