#OtD 17 May 1874 Japanese revolutionary and Sōtō Zen Buddhist priest, Uchiyama Gudō, was born in Ojiya. In his temple, he published socialist and anarchist texts until arrested in 1909. He was later executed in the high treason incident in 1911 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12553/uchiyama-gud%C5%8D-born