Torataro Yoshimura

Japanese: 吉村寅太郎 - よしむらとらたろう

[Born] Tempo 8 (1837), Tosa
[Died] September 26, 1863. Yamato, Yoshino. A sonno-joi patriot from the end of the Edo period. Also written as Kotaro. His name was Shigego. He succeeded his father Taihei as village headman, but in 1861 he joined Takechi Zuizan's Loyalist Party, and the following year he fled from the domain to serve the state, but was arrested and repatriated in the Teradaya Incident. In 1863 he went to Kyoto and founded the Tenchu-gumi with Fujimoto Tesseki and Matsumoto Keido, and raised an army to overthrow the shogunate and expel the barbarians, but was defeated in the Battle of Washikaguchi and committed suicide. (→ Yamato Gojo Incident)

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Japanese:

[生]天保8(1837).土佐
[没]文久3(1863).9.26. 大和，吉野
幕末の尊攘派志士。虎太郎とも書く。名は重郷。父太平の跡を継いで庄屋になったが，文久1 (1861) 年武市瑞山の勤王党に加盟，翌年脱藩して国事に奔走，寺田屋騒動で捕われて送還された。同3年さらに京都に出て藤本鉄石，松本奎堂らと天誅組を起して討幕攘夷の挙兵をしたが，鷲家口 (わしかぐち) の戦いに敗れて自刃。 (→大和五条の変 )

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