Yamakawa Hiroshi
| Yamakawa Hiroshi | |
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General Yamakawa Hiroshi
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| Native name | 山川 浩 |
| Born |
December 4, 1845 Fukushima prefecture, Japan |
| Died | March 6, 1898 (aged 52) Tokyo, Japan |
| Allegiance | Empire of Japan |
| Service/branch |
 Imperial Japanese Army
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| Rank | Major General |
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Baron Yamakawa Hiroshi (山川 浩?, 4 December 1845 – 6 March 1898) was a samurai of late Edo period Japan who went on to become a noted general in the early Meiji period Imperial Japanese Army. An Aizu retainer famous for his ingenious strategies against the early Meiji government during the Boshin War to overthrow the Tokugawa bakufu, he was of the first people from Aizu to write a history of the years leading up to the war, together with his brother Yamakawa Kenjirō.
Yamakawa Hiroshi, or, as he was first known, Yōshichirō (与七郎), was born in Aizu-Wakamatsu (present day Fukushima Prefecture, in 1845. His father, Yamakawa Shigekata (山川重固), was a karō (senior retainer) of the Aizu clan, and his mother, Tōi (唐衣), was the daughter of another karō family, the Saigō. At age 15, Yōshichirō's father died, so he succeeded to the family headship.
In 1862, Yōshichirō, now known as Shigeyoshi (重栄) or more commonly, Ōkura (大蔵), followed the Aizu daimyō Matsudaira Katamori to Kyōto when the latter was appointed to the post of Kyoto Shugoshoku . After serving with distinction through the heat of the conflicts of 1863-65, in 1866 Yamakawa was allowed to accompany the Shogunate's Foreign Affairs Magistrate Koide Hidezane to Russia, where he assisted in negotiations concerning the drawing of international borders in Karafuto. Returning to Japan, he was present as a commander of the domain forces at the Battle of Toba-Fushimi in the Boshin War, which he survived, and escaped to Edo.
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