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Kawakami Gensai

1834 - 1872

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Kawakami Gensai (河上 彦斎; 25 December 1834 – 13 January 1872) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period. A highly skilled swordsman, he was one of the four most notable assassins of the Bakumatsu period. Gensai's high-speed sword discipline allowed him to assassinate targets in broad daylight. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kawakami Gensai is the 679th most popular military personnel (down from 554th in 2019), the 516th most popular biography from Japan (down from 330th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Kawakami Gensai ranks 679 out of 2,058. Before him are Conon, Choe Yeong, Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle, Pierre Cambronne, Ashraf Marwan, and Fritz Bayerlein. After him are Callimachus, Bardas Skleros, Franz Hössler, Jean Maximilien Lamarque, Justinian, and Markian Popov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Kawakami Gensai ranks 24. Before him are Aleksis Kivi, Johann Philipp Reis, Norodom of Cambodia, John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Kondō Isami, and Hetty Green. After him are Gaston Planté, Julia Pastrana, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Heinrich von Treitschke, and Gustav Nachtigal. Among people deceased in 1872, Kawakami Gensai ranks 22. Before him are Mary Somerville, Charles-Eugène Delaunay, Mpande kaSenzangakhona, Prince Albert of Prussia, Vladimir Dal, and Immanuel Nobel. After him are Princess Feodora of Leiningen, William H. Seward, George Meade, Handrij Zejler, Zeng Guofan, and Johan Rudolph Thorbecke.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kawakami Gensai ranks 516 out of 6,245. Before him are Kiichi Miyazawa (1919), Emperor Jomei (593), Mamoru Oshii (1951), Kantarō Suzuki (1868), Sessue Hayakawa (1886), and Minoru Genda (1904). After him are Emperor Go-Ichijō (1008), Morihiro Hosokawa (1938), Ueda Akinari (1734), Shigeru Takahashi (null), Emperor Tsuchimikado (1196), and Mitsuo Kamata (1937).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Kawakami Gensai ranks 39. Before him are Hitoshi Imamura (1886), Yoshijirō Umezu (1882), Takeichi Nishi (1902), Hisaichi Terauchi (1879), Saitō Hajime (1844), and Takijirō Ōnishi (1891). After him are Sadao Araki (1877), Shibata Katsuie (1522), Taira no Masakado (903), Nobutake Kondō (1886), Seiichi Itō (1890), and Takeo Kurita (1889).

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