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Ōkubo Toshimichi
(大久保
利通
10 August
1830 -
1878),
Japanese
statesman, a
samurai of
Satsuma, is one of the
five great nobles who led the revolution in 1868 against the shogunate.
He was born in
Satsuma, now
Kagoshima prefecture as the eldest of five children. He studied at the
same local school with
Saigo Takamori, who was three years older. He became one of the
mikado's principal ministers, and in the Satsuma troubles which followed
he was the chief opponent of Saigo Takamori. But the suppression of the
Satsuma rebellion brought upon him the personal revenge of Saigo's
sympathizers, and in the spring of
1878 he was assassinated by six clansmen. Okubo was one of the leading
men of his day, and in
1872 was one of the Japanese mission which was sent round the world to
get ideas for organizing the new rιgime.
He was assasinated by
Shimada Ichiro and his fellows on his way to
Tokyo in
1878.
See also:
Meiji Restoration
Credit
The article contains materials from
1911 encyclopedia.
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