Denshūtai
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thumb|The Shogunate's French-style cavalry. thumb|Denshūtai cavalry and infantry (details).
The was a corps of elite troops of the Tokugawa Bakufu during the Bakumatsu period in Japan. The corps was founded by Ōtori Keisuke with the help of the 1867–68 French Military Mission to Japan.
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