was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period through early Meiji period.

Background

The son of an ashigaru of the

Kaga Domain The , also known as the , was a domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1583 to 1871.

, he was famous as the lead assassin of the powerful politician Ōkubo Toshimichi on May 14, 1878. Following the assassination, he and the other assassins turned themselves in and all were executed in July of the same year.

References

1848 births 1878 deaths Japanese assassins Japanese swordfighters People of Meiji-period Japan People from Ishikawa Prefecture Samurai 19th-century executions by Japan Executed assassins {{samurai-stub