Isawa Shji was a Japanese educator of the Meiji period.
Isawa Shji was born in 1851 in the Takat Domain, Shinano Province, to an impoverished samurai family. Shjis father, Isawa Katsusabur , was a fairly lowranking samurai secretary for the Takat Domain, and was also an amateur artist. Shjis mother was Uchida Take .
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