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[[File:Shimazukeijiro.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The graves of Shimazu Keijirô and his followers at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]] in [[Kagoshima]]]]
*''Died: [[1877]]/9/24''
*''Japanese'': [[島津]]啓次郎 ''(Shimazu Keijirou)''
Shimazu Keijirô was a [[Satsuma han]] samurai who fought and died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
He was the third son of [[Shimazu Tadahiro]] of the Sadowara branch of the [[Shimazu clan]], and studied overseas in the United States for about seven years, from [[1869]] until [[1876]], when he returned to Japan and joined the [[Freedom and People's Rights Movement]] (''Jiyû minken undô''). In the [[1877]] Satsuma Rebellion, he fought alongside the 500-man Sadowara army, dying in the Battle of Shiroyama on September 24th that year at the age of 21, alongside his followers Mishima Mitsugu<!--三島貢之--> (age 38), Nakamura Michiharu<!--中村道晴--> (age 26), and Arimura Takehide<!--有村武英--> (age 20). They were buried together at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]].
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==References==
*Plaques on-site at Shimazu's grave at the Nanshû Cemetery.
*''Died: [[1877]]/9/24''
*''Japanese'': [[島津]]啓次郎 ''(Shimazu Keijirou)''
Shimazu Keijirô was a [[Satsuma han]] samurai who fought and died in the [[Satsuma Rebellion]].
He was the third son of [[Shimazu Tadahiro]] of the Sadowara branch of the [[Shimazu clan]], and studied overseas in the United States for about seven years, from [[1869]] until [[1876]], when he returned to Japan and joined the [[Freedom and People's Rights Movement]] (''Jiyû minken undô''). In the [[1877]] Satsuma Rebellion, he fought alongside the 500-man Sadowara army, dying in the Battle of Shiroyama on September 24th that year at the age of 21, alongside his followers Mishima Mitsugu<!--三島貢之--> (age 38), Nakamura Michiharu<!--中村道晴--> (age 26), and Arimura Takehide<!--有村武英--> (age 20). They were buried together at the [[Nanshu Cemetery|Nanshû Cemetery]].
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==References==
*Plaques on-site at Shimazu's grave at the Nanshû Cemetery.