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*''Born: [[1816]]''

*''Born: [[1816]]''

*''Died: [[1862]]''

*''Died: [[1862]]''

*Other Name: Yoshida Genkichi

* ''Other Name: Yoshida Genkichi''

*Japanese: 吉田東洋

* ''Japanese'': [[吉田]] 東洋 ''(Yoshida Touyou)''

Yoshida was Tosa daimyo Yamauchi Yodo’s most trusted and reformed-minded minister and was quite influential on other upcoming Tosa leaders such as Goto Shojiro and Itagaki Taisuke. By remaining loyal to the Bakufu, Yoshida drew the wrath of Takechi Zuizan and his Tosa Loyalist Party, and as a result, was assassinated on his way home from Kochi castle.

 

Yoshida Tôyô was a [[Tosa han]] retainer, and for a time lord of Tosa [[Yamauchi Yodo|Yamauchi Yôdô’s]] most trusted and reformed-minded minister. Assigned in [[1853]] to help oversee reforms in domain governance at [[Tosa Edo mansion|the domain's Edo mansion]], he had a notable influence on other upcoming Tosa leaders such as [[Goto Shojiro|Gôtô Shôjirô]] and [[Itagaki Taisuke]]. On or around [[1854]]/6/11, however, he was recalled from [[Edo]], had his [[stipend]] reduced, and was sentenced to house confinement for a time.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937), 612.</ref>

 

By remaining loyal to the [[Tokugawa Bakufu|Bakufu]], Yoshida drew the wrath of [[Takechi Zuizan]] and his [[Tosa Loyalist Party]], and as a result, was assassinated on [[1862]]/4/8 while on his way home from [[Kochi castle|Kôchi castle]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 4 (1937), 42.</ref>

==References==

==References==

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*[[Romulus Hillsborough|Hillsborough, Romulus]]. ''RYOMA- Life of a Renaissance Samurai''. Ridgeback Press, 1999

*Jansen, Marius B. ''Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration''. Columbia University Press, 1994.

*Jansen, Marius B. ''Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration''. Columbia University Press, 1994.