Kawakami Gensai
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Kawakami Gensai was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period. A highly skilled swordsman, he was one of the four most notable assassins of the Bakumatsu period. Gensai's high-speed sword discipline a
Ukyo-e depicting Kawakami Gensai after the assassination of Sakuma Shōzan, by unknown artist
Genji Yume Monogatari (1878) by Shinsai Toshimitsu. A nishiki-e print depicting Kawakami Gensai and cohorts assassinating Sakuma Shōzan.
Tomb of Kawakami Gensai at Ikegami Honmon-ji, Tokyo, Japan
Kiheitai
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The Kiheitai was a volunteer militia raised by Takasugi Shinsaku of the Chōshū domain during the Bakumatsu period of Japan.
Kawakami Gensai
…attributed to him, only his murder of Shōzan can be proven. After this, he withdrew to Chōshū and took part in the military actions of Takasugi Shinsaku's Kiheitai against the shogunate's Chōshū Expeditions. During the second Chōshū campaign by the Tokugawa regime, he participated for Chōshū and eventually won the…
Kiheitai Militia 1864-1866