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Tōgō Heihachirō
Japanese admiral of the fleet (1848–1934)
Saigō Takamori
samurai of the Satsuma domain, supreme commander of Japanese army, one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (1828-1877)
Ōkubo Toshimichi
one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration, regarded as one of the main founders of modern Japan (1830-1878)
Kuroda Kiyotaka
Japanese general (1840-1900)
Yamamoto Gonnohyōe
Prime Minister of Japan (1852-1933)
Ōyama Iwao
Japanese general (1842-1916)
Kabayama Sukenori
Japanese general (1837-1922)
Kuroki Tamemoto
Japanese general (1844-1923)
Ito Sukeyuki
Japanese admiral (1843-1914)
Saigō Tsugumichi
Japanese politician and admiral (1843-1902)
Nozu Michitsura
Japanese politician (1840-1908)
Mori Arinori
Japanese noble (1847-1889)
Kamimura Hikonojō
Japanese admiral
Kawamura Sumiyoshi
Japanese admiral (1836-1904)
Anjirō
or , baptized as Paulo de Santa Fé, was the first recorded Japanese Christian, who lived in the 16th century. After committing a murder in his home domain of Satsuma in southern Kyushu, he fled to Portuguese Malacca and he sought out Saint Francis Xavier (1506–1552) and returned to Japan with him as an interpreter. Along with Xavier, Anjirō returned to Japan with two other Jesuits, two Japanese companions, and a Chinese companion who had been baptized to Catholicism to form the first Jesuit mission to Japan.
Kawamura Kageaki
Japanese general (1850-1926)
Kawakami Sōroku
Japanese general (1848–1899)
Nishi Tokujirō
Japanese politician (1847–1912)
Kirino Toshiaki
Samurai and an Imperial Japanese Army general
Terashima Munenori
Japanese politician and diplomat (1832-1893)
Inoue Yoshika
Japanese admiral (1845-1929)
Komatsu Kiyokado
samurai (1835-1870)
Murata Tsuneyoshi
Japanese military personnel
Ijūin Gorō
Japanese admiral
Beppu Shinsuke
samurai
Ōura Kanetake
Japanese politician
Godai Tomoatsu
Japanese businessman (1836-1885)
Machida Hisanari
Japanese samurai and statesman
Takashima Tomonosuke
Japanese general (1844-1916)
Niiro Tadamoto
Japanese samurai (1526-1611)
Zusho Hirosato
samurai
Nire Kagenori
Japanese admiral
Samejima Kazunori
Japanese admiral
Nishi Kanjirō
Japanese general
Mishima Michitsune
Japanese politician (1835-1888)
Narahara Shigeru
Japanese politician
Shibayama Yahachi
Japanese admiral
Uwai Satokane
Samurai of the Sengoku period