Saigō Takamori

was born in Kagoshima. Takamori Saigo 1828 - 1877, original name Kichibe or Kichinosuke, was a leader of the 19th-centry’s unsuccessful drive to modernise Japan. Political change attempted the end of the Samurais era, however they did not go down without a fight (                    ). Takamori Saigo believed that instead of the Samurai’s culture dying out, it should have been modernised instead. and was a Japanese Samurai. In 1877 he led the Satsuma rebellion and against the new imperial government.

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