The tondenhei (屯田兵, Soldiers stationed in the fields,[1] literally "field-encampment soldiers") were military settler colonists recruited after the Meiji Restoration to develop and defend Japan's northern frontier in Hokkaidō and Karafuto against foreign nations, particularly Imperial Russia. (The term tonden comes from ancient China, where colonist militias were also employed to defend imperial frontiers.[2]) The first recruits in Japan were former samurai whose feudal lords had opposed the Meiji forces and whose domains were therefore abolished, leaving them without gainful employment. Later recruits included commoners as well as samurai.[3]
^M. Mason (2012). Dominant Narratives of Colonial Hokkaido and Imperial Japan: Envisioning the Periphery and the Modern Nation-State. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1137289759.
^Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, vol. 8. Kodansha. 1983. p. 74. ISBN 9780870116285.
^Irish, Ann B (2009). Hokkaido: A History of Ethnic Transition and Development on Japan's Northern Island. McFarland. pp. 119 ff. ISBN 978-0-786-44449-6.
The tondenhei (屯田兵, Soldiers stationed in the fields, literally "field-encampment soldiers") were military settler colonists recruited after the Meiji...
Asahikawa Tondenhei Village Museum (旭川兵村記念館, Asahikawa Heison Kinenkan) opened in Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1982. The exhibits include a recreated...
structure with red bricks, constructed in 1888. The last squad of the Tondenhei, the soldiers pioneering Hokkaido, settled in the place where the area...
Prefectural Cultural Property Documents of the Takikawa tondenhei, and an annex comprising a tondenhei house. List of Cultural Properties of Japan - historical...
by the mainland Japanese in the Meiji period (1868 – July 1912) as a tondenhei, or state-sponsored farmer-militia settlement. Kamikawa District set up...
people in 1871, who came from the Miyagi Prefecture on Honshu. In 1878, tondenhei began moving into the area. When the Meiji Government, in 1878, designated...
the Tondenhei, a unit of Hokkaido farmer-soldiers, were constructed from Nishi 10 chōme to Nishi 12 chōme. After the abolition of the Tondenhei, some...
zone inhabited with armed settlers, often local tribes Far East - Japan Tondenhei, 19th-century military border settlers Blood and soil Greater Germanic...
simultaneously establishing a Japanese military presence via the stationing of Tondenhei troops in the area with the purpose of counteracting Soviet influence...
facility displaying as many as 2,500 items concerning the history of the Tondenhei Army, which developed Hokkaido, the 7th Division of the old Imperial Japanese...
北海道巡幸屯田兵御覧 Hokkaidō junkō tondenhei goran 1 September 1881 Takamura Shimpu (高村真夫) (1876–1955) August 1928 the Emperor visits a tondenhei community in the village...
practiced during the Meiji Restoration in frontier Hokkaido under the name tondenhei ("tonden-soldiers"). The Sino-Korean reading of tuntian is dunjeon (or...
The building is designated an Important Cultural Property. In 1896, the Tondenhei, the army engaged in farming and security in Hokkaidō prefecture, was...
of Natural Monuments of Japan (Hokkaidō) List of Ramsar sites in Japan Tondenhei Wildlife Protection Areas in Japan 天塩川 [Teshio River] (in Japanese). Ministry...
Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaidō University Asahikawa Tondenhei Village Museum Chitose Salmon Aquarium Field Science Center for Northern...
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