
Inoue Genzaburo (4 April 1829-29 January 1868) was a Japanese samurai who served as Captain of the Sixth Division of the Shinsengumi during the Bakumatsu period.
Biography[]
Inoue Genzaburo was born in Edo, Japan in 1829, and he became a practicioner of the Tennen Rishin-ryu and mastered all the techniques of the school in 1860. In 1862, Takechi Hanpeita had Inoue assassinate the Tosa Loyalist Party ally Yoshida Toyo, a common enemy of the pro-Imperial Inoue Genzaburo and the pro-Shogunate Inoue. Inoue joined the Shinsengumi in 1863, and he arrested eight members of the Ishin Shishi during the Ikedaya incident in 1864. He was killed at the Battle of Toba-Fushimi in 1868.