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Enomoto Takeaki was born in edo into a family of gokenin
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In 1853, he went to study rangaku in Nagasaki. rangakuin meant Dutch studies which consisted of Dutch language and European sciences.
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In 1856, he attended the Nagasaki Naval Training Center, a training facility established by the shogunate in 1855, with mainly Dutch instructors
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In 1862, Enomoto was sent to the Netherlands to study western techniques in naval warfare and to procure western technologies
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Enomoto returned to Japan in 1867, where he was promoted vice commander-in-chief of the navy and bestowed the courtesy title of izumi-no-kami
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On June 27, 1869 Enomoto surrendered to Kuroda Kiyotaka on the condition that he alone be held responsible. Kuroda was so impressed with Enomoto's tenacity and selflessness that he showed mercy and spared him from execution.
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In 1882, Enomoto became ambassador to China and assumed a number of ministerial portfolios: education, communications, foreign affairs, agriculture, and commerce.
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Enomoto Takeaki died at the age of 72 in Tokyo Japan 1908
