Saigō Takamori

1828–1877
Photograph of Saigō Takamori Source: Wikimedia Commons

About Saigō Takamori

samurai of the Satsuma domain, supreme commander of Japanese army, one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (1828-1877)

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