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  • Other Names: 中村 半次郎 (Nakamura Hanjirô)
  • Japanese: 桐野利秋 (Kirino Toshiaki)

Kirino Toshiaki was a prominent Satsuma han general known for his involvement in both events surrounding the Meiji Restoration, and the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877.

Following the Restoration, he was one of a number of figures, alongside Saigô Takamori, Ôyama Tsunayoshi, and others, who received shôtenroku stipends from the Meiji government as a reward for their involvement in bringing about the Restoration.[1]

Kirino is buried at the Nanshû Cemetery in Kagoshima.

References

  1. Plaques on-site at Terukuni Shrine.