Ito Kashitaro

• Born: 1835
• Died: 1867
• Titles:Shinsengumi Staff Officer, Goryo Eji Leader.
• Japanese: 伊東甲子太郎(Ito Kashitaro) originaly 鈴木大蔵 (Suzuki Okura)

Mito

Suzuki Okura was born in Hitachi as a son of Shizuku han Samurai. His family was expeled from the han when he was little. Okura left from family same time and moved to Mito to study which strongly effected him to be Sonno. Later he moved to Edo, became pupil of Ito Seiichiro dojo of Hokushin Itto Ryu. He married to dojo master's daughter and inherited the dojo. (His name changed to Ito Okura)

Shinsengumi

1864, he joined Shinsengumi with Shinohara Tainoshin,Kano Washio, Hattori Takeo.Utsumi Jiro,Nakajima Nobori,Sano Shimenosuke , and his brother Suzuki Mikisaburo. Okura changed his name to Ito Kashitaro

Kondo Isami adored his intelligence and treated him as executive officer in the begining. But they had opposite political philosophies. Kondo was Sabaku,Ito was Tobaku.

References

• Shinsengumi Taishi Den (新選組隊士伝) Gakken
• Shinsengumi (新選組) Sekai Bunkasha
• Shinsengumi Zentaishi Tettei Guide (新選組全隊士徹底ガイド) Maeda Masaki

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