ENOMOTO, BUYO, VISCOUNT Japanese vice-admiral, was born in Tokyo. He was the first officer sent by the Tokugawa government to study naval science in Europe, and after going through a course of instruction in Holland he returned in command of the frigate "Kaiyo Maru," built at Amsterdam to order of the Yedo administration. The salient episode of his career was an attempt to establish a republic at Hakodate. Finding himself in command of a squadron which represented practically the whole of Japan's naval forces, he refused to acquiesce in the deposition of the Shogun, and, steaming off to Yezo (1867), pro claimed a republic and fortified Hakodate. He was soon com pelled to surrender, but the newly organized government of the empire instead of inflicting the death penalty on him and his prin cipal followers, as would have been the inevitable sequel of such a drama in previous times, punished them with imprisonment only, and four years after the Hakodate episode, Enomoto re ceived an important post in Hokkaido, the scene of his attempt. Subsequently (1874), as envoy in St. Petersburg, he concluded the treaty by which Japan exchanged the southern half of Sag halien for the Kuriles. He received the title of viscount in 1885, and afterwards held the portfolios of communications, education and foreign affairs. He died at Tokyo in 1909.