Yoshida Toshimaro

Yoshida Toshimaro (, Yoshida Toshimaro) is a minor antagonist in Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin!/Like a Dragon: Ishin! based on the real-life historical figure of the same name. He is a member of the Choshu Loyalist Party.
==Profile==
===Appearance===
In Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin! Yoshida looks identical to Kamon Kanai.
in Like a Dragon: Ishin! he shares his appearance with Futoshi Shimano. He is extremely muscular and has a great number of wrinkles on his face.
== Background ==
Yoshida is a high-ranking member of the Choshu Loyalist Party, an alliance of samurai from the Choshu Domain who seek to overthrow the Tokugawa Bakufu and restore direct rule of the country to the Emperor.
==Involvement==
===Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin!/Like a Dragon: Ishin!: 1867===
Yoshida proposes a radical plan to liberate the Emperor from his Shogunate guards to the leadership of the Choshu Loyalists: Stockpile a large amount of gunpowder and then detonate it in a section of the Imperial Palace wall, then mount an attack on that destroyed section of the palace, which would serve as a distraction for another, smaller group of samurai to stealthily infiltrate the palace and take the Emperor away. The plan is initially opposed by the Party's leader, Katsura Kogoro, because he sees it as needless risky and likely to cause high collateral damage, but the rest of the group's high-ranking members are swayed by Yoshida's plan and agree to go through with it.
However, the Shinsengumi learn of this plan after they capture and torture Furutaka Shuntaro, one of the high-ranking members who'd agreed with Yoshida. Through Furutaka they also learn that the Choshu Loyalists will meet at Ikedaya to finalize the details of the plan, giving the Shinsengumi an opportunity to kill many Choshu shishi with ease. Unbeknownst to the Shinsengumi, one of their division captains, Matsubara Chuji, is a Choshu infiltrator and he tells the Choshu Loyalists of the plan's discovery. Given this development, Katsura tries to dissuade the Party from proceeding with the plan, but Yoshida once again convinces them to go through with it, also insisting that the plan's discovery provides the Loyalists with an opportunity to turn the Shinsengumi's own ambush against them by massing more troops at Ikedaya prior to the raid.
On the night of the raid, the Shinsengumi attack Ikedaya and find themselves confronted by far more Choshu Loyalists than they'd expected, but they nonetheless manage to hold their own against their adversaries. Nagakura Shinpachi corners Yoshida in a room on the inn's second floor, but he's seriously wounded while fighting him. Before Yoshida can kill Nagakura, he's saved by the arrival of Sakamoto Ryoma, who defends him and takes on Yoshida in his own duel. Despite his size advantage against Sakamoto, Yoshida is ultimately defeated and killed in the ensuing battle.
== Fighting Style ==
Yoshida wields a massive kanabo as a weapon. All his attacks are wild swings that do massive damage.
==Gallery==
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