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This hard-drinking lord of [[Tosa han|Tosa]] was one of the most respected men during the [[Bakumatsu period]]. Although a staunch supporter of the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]], Yôdô read the times correctly and shifted his allegiance to the [[sonno|restoration of Imperial Rule]]. Although forced into retirement in [[1859]] during the [[Ansei Purge]], Yôdô still managed to control ''[[han]]'' politics until he retired completely from politics and fettered away his remaining days drinking heavily until his death in [[1872]]. Although he never met [[Sakamoto Ryoma|Sakamoto Ryôma]], it was Yôdô who passed on Ryôma's memorial to [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]], urging the Shogun to resign peacefully and cede political control back to the throne, which he did.
This hard-drinking lord of [[Tosa han|Tosa]] was one of the most respected men during the [[Bakumatsu period]]. Although a staunch supporter of the [[Tokugawa clan|Tokugawa]], Yôdô read the times correctly and shifted his allegiance to the [[sonno|restoration of Imperial Rule]]. Although forced into retirement in [[1859]] during the [[Ansei Purge]], Yôdô still managed to control ''[[han]]'' politics until he retired completely from politics and fettered away his remaining days drinking heavily until his death in [[1872]]. Although he never met [[Sakamoto Ryoma|Sakamoto Ryôma]], it was Yôdô who passed on Ryôma's memorial to [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]], urging the Shogun to resign peacefully and cede political control back to the throne, which he did.
His elder sister Maki 真喜 married [[Rokujo Ariosa|Rokujô Ariosa]] in [[1855]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 43.</ref>
==References==
==References==
* [[Romulus Hillsborough|Hillsborough, Romulus]]. ''RYOMA- Life of a Renaissance Samurai''. Ridgeback Press, 1999
* [[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.
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