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*''Japanese'': [[西郷]] 菊次郎 ''(Saigô Kikujirô)''
*''Japanese'': [[西郷]] 菊次郎 ''(Saigô Kikujirô)''
Saigô Kikujirô was a son of [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]]. His mother, [[Ryu Aiko|Ryû Aiko]] (Aikana) was a local woman from [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]].
Saigô Kikujirô was a son of [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]]. His mother, [[Ryu Aiko|Ryû Aiko]] (Aikana) was a local woman from [[Amami Oshima|Amami Ôshima]]. He had one younger sister, [[Oyama Kikuko|Kikugusa]], and a number of half-siblings.
Born in what is now Tatsugô-chô on Amami Ôshima, at age nine Kikujirô was taken to [[Kagoshima]] by his father. Three years later, he was sent to the United States for study.
Kikujirô returned to Japan in the mid- or late 1870s, and fought alongside his father Takamori in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]]. He suffered a gunshot wound to his right leg, which was then amputated by physician and Saigô family relative [[Adachi Baikei]].
After the end of that war, Kikujirô later worked in the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] and then under the [[Governor-General of Taiwan]], before becoming governor of [[Yilan county]] on [[Taiwan]]. Kikujirô then served as mayor of [[Kyoto]] City for a time and oversaw three of the city's most famous and major late [[Meiji period]] infrastructure projects. Finally, he worked for a time as the head of [[Shimadzu Corporation]] mining operations in Nagano, [[Kagoshima prefecture]].
Kikujirô married a woman known as Hisa or Hisako.<!--1876-1933--> They had seven sons and seven daughters together.
Kikujirô married a woman known as Hisa or Hisako.<!--1876-1933--> They had seven sons and seven daughters together.
He died at age 67 of a heart attack.
==Children==
==Children==
==References==
==References==
*Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugô Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49491207457/sizes/3k/]
*Gallery labels, Amami Tatsugô Shima Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49491207457/sizes/3k/][https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/49491207347/sizes/k/]
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[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]