Yoshida Toyo

Yoshida Toyo (, Yoshida Tōyō) is a supporting character featured in Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin!/Like a Dragon: Ishin! sharing his in-game appearance with Shintaro Kazama as well as the real-life historical figure .
He is the magistrate of the Tosa Domain and founder of the Kengoshi Schoolhouse.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Although based on Shintaro Kazama, Toyo's appearance is based on his twin brother Joji Kazama as seen in Yakuza 3. He has a chonmage haircut.
=== Personality ===
Toyo is a tough but caring man, who decided to take Ryoma in as his own after his parents were killed. Despite his high position within the Tokugawa Bakufu's class system, Toyo despises the hierarchy it imposes and wishes to see the Shogunate reformed to make it more egalitarian.
In accordance with his beliefs, Toyo founded the Kengoshi Schoolhouse, a private school for low-rank samurai to learn the skills that were otherwise exclusively taught to higher-rank samurai, so that they may eventually try to ascend in the Tokugawa class hierarchy. He also adopted Sakamoto Ryoma, a low-rank young samurai whose parents were killed when they offended two higher-rank samurai.
== Background ==
Despite his position as a joshi and local magistrate, Toyo secretly wished to reform the Tosa Domain's political system and eliminate its enforcement of the Tokugawa's strict class system. To that end, he secretly founded the Tosa Loyalist Party, an an organization of anti-Shogunate samurai, alongside Takechi Hanpeita. Though Takechi and many other members of the Loyalist Party preferred the idea of trying to overthrow the Bakufu outright, Toyo instead convinced most of them that trying to reform it first was likelier to succeed while also minimizing bloodshed.
== Involvement ==
=== Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin!/Like a Dragon: Ishin!: 1866 ===
In 1866, Sakamoto returns to Tosa after spending two years training swordsmanship in Edo. Immediately after arriving, he witnesses two high-rank samurai threatening a woman for not bowing while they passed, because the woman was trying to get her sick daughter to a doctor. Sakamoto beats up the high-rank samurai and is promptly arrested for defying the Tokugawa class system. Though this crime would normally carry a death sentence, Toyo uses his power within the Tosa Domain's hierarchy to get Sakamoto released without charge.
Father and son reunite over tea and Toyo tells Sakamoto of the Tosa Loyalist Party (Kinno-to), inviting him to join, which the younger man agrees to do. Sakamoto would then go onto reunite with his childhood friend, Takechi, and meet most of the members of the Kinno-to, unfortunately getting into a fight with one of them, Okada Izo, after Takechi announces his intention of appointing Sakamoto as his second-in-command.
The next night, Toyo meets with Takechi and Sakamoto in his study at Lord Yamauchi's palace to discuss their plans to force the Tosa government to reform. Toyo intends to let the Kinno-to's samurai into Lord Yamauchi's palace at night, so that they may lock themselves in the castle and occupy it until Lord Yamauchi agrees to several reforms, including the abolition of the class system.
After explaining his plan, Toyo states that Sakamoto cannot serve as Takechi's second-in-command, shocking him. Unbeknownst to Sakamoto, Toyo intended to say that Sakamoto should instead be the new leader of the Kinno-to and Takechi should be his second-in-command instead. Unfortunately, Toyo would not get to make this declaration, for he was interrupted when a masked assassin burst into the room and attacked him. The assassin quickly struck a killing blow on the minister and fled the room, pursued by Takechi.
Sakamoto cradles a mortally wounded Toyo, who tells Sakamoto to run, since if his guards see him they'll believe he was the assassin. However, Sakamoto refuses to abandon his dying foster father. Toyo tells Sakamoto that "the future is in his hands" before succumbing to his injuries, after which guards arrive and, as predicted, mistake Sakamoto for the killer, prompting him to flee.
Unbeknownst to Sakamoto, the assassin had actually been hired by Takechi, who believed that Toyo was too moderate a leader for the Tosa Loyalist Party, so he needed to get rid of him to implement his far more radical ideas for changing Japan.
==Gallery==
===Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin!===
Shintarō Fūma (Yoshida Tōyō).png
RGGI! - Character Render - Yoshida Toyo.jpg|Full-body Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin! render of Yoshida
RGGI! - Character Render - Yoshida Toyo (Tosa).png|Full-body Ryu ga Gotoku Ishin! render of Yoshida in Tosa
===Like a Dragon: Ishin!===
LADI! - Character Render - Yoshida Toyo.png|Full-body Like a Dragon: Ishin! render of Yoshida
LADI! - Character Render - Yoshida Toyo (Tosa).png|Full-body Like a Dragon: Ishin! render of Yoshida in Tosa
=== Ryu Ga Gotoku Online ===
RGGO - Card - SSR Yoshida Toyo.png|SSR Yoshida Toyo
Category:Ryu Ga Gotoku Ishin! Characters
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Category:Tosa Domain
Category:Tosa Loyalist Party
Category:Historical Figures