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Sasaki Tadasaburo

Sasaki Tadasaburo (1833-4 February 1868) was the commander of the Mimawarigumi elite police force of the Tokugawa bakufu during the Bakumatsu period.

Biography[]

Sasaki Tadasaburo was born in the Aizu Domain in 1833, and he came from a samurai clan high in the hierarchy of the Tokugawa bakufu. Befitting of his station, he was eventually made into the first commander of the Kyoto Mimawarigumi, a special police force of high-ranked samurai whose job it was to guard the Imperial palace from potential Shishi plots to kidnap the Emperor. In 1867, he and other Mimawarigumi members were responsible for the assassination of the pro-Imperial samurai Sakamoto Ryoma shortly before the outbreak of the Boshin War, which Ryoma had helped to trigger by forming the Satcho Alliance between the Satsuma Domain and Choshu Domain. Sasaki himself was fatally injured in a battle at Hashimoto following the Battle of Toba-Fushimi, dying a few days later.

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