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* ''Born: [[1827]]''
* ''Born: [[1827]]''
* ''Died: [[1872]]''
* ''Died: [[1872]]''
* ''Other Name: Yamauchi Yodo''
* ''Other Names'': 山内 容堂 ''(Yamauchi Youdou)''
* ''Japanese'': 山内 豊信
* ''Japanese'': [[山内]] 豊信 ''(Yamauchi Toyoshige)''
Yamauchi Toyoshige (Yôdô) was lord of [[Tosa han]] from [[1849]] to [[1859]], and was a prominent and influential figure in [[Bakumatsu]] politics.
Although a staunch supporter of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], Yôdô later 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 for a time, before retiring more completely from politics sometime prior to 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>
Yôdô retired in [[1859]] in favor of [[Yamauchi Toyonori]], fourth son of a relative, [[Yamauchi Toyosuke]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (1937), 143.</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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