Ninomiya Sontoku

Ninomiya Sontoku
二宮 尊徳
Since the Meiji period, statues of Ninomiya have been installed in many schools in Japan as a model person of diligence and frugality.
Born
Ninomiya Kinjirō (二宮 金次郎)

(1787-09-04)September 4, 1787
Died(1856-11-17)November 17, 1856
EraLate Edo period

Ninomiya Sontoku (二宮 尊徳, September 4, 1787 – November 17, 1856), also known as Ninomiya Kinjirō (二宮 金次郎), was a Japanese agriculturalist. He lost his parents when he was a boy, but through hard work and diligence, he rebuilt his fallen family at the age of 20. Later, he rebuilt approximately 600 villages and became a shogunate retainer. His ideas and actions were inherited as the Hōtokusha Movement.