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*''Died: [[1858]]/11/19''
*''Other Names'': 忍向 ''(Ninkô)'', 成就院 ''(Seijuku-in)''
*''Japanese'': 月照 ''(Gesshou)''

Gesshô, also known as Ninkô, was a Buddhist monk in close association with [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]] and others in the mid-to-late 1850s. On [[1858]]/11/19, he and Takamori attempted to commit suicide together by drowning themselves in Kinkô Bay (in or near [[Kagoshima]] City); Saigô survived, but Gesshô did not. He was posthumously granted the Senior Fourth Rank.

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