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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Hijikata Toshizō

1835 - 1869

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Hijikata Toshizō (土方 歳三, May 31, 1835 – June 20, 1869) was a Japanese warrior. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hijikata Toshizō has received more than 1,114,624 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hijikata Toshizō is the 576th most popular military personnel (down from 465th in 2019), the 310th most popular biography from Japan (down from 245th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Hijikata Toshizō is most famous for leading the Shinsengumi, a group of samurai who were loyal to the shogunate. The Shinsengumi were an elite military force and were known for their strict discipline and fierce loyalty.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Hijikata Toshizō ranks 576 out of 1,468. Before him are Takeichi Nishi, Nicolaus von Below, Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, Hisaichi Terauchi, Alexander Pokryshkin, and Gusztáv Jány. After him are Deng Ai, Kurt Franz, Valery Gerasimov, Creighton Abrams, Huang Gai, and Kirill Moskalenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Hijikata Toshizō ranks 27. Before him are Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Shoqan Walikhanov, Iwasaki Yatarō, Elisha Gray, and Adolph Wagner. After him are Sai Baba of Shirdi, Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Simon Newcomb, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, Mendele Mocher Sforim, and Matsukata Masayoshi. Among people deceased in 1869, Hijikata Toshizō ranks 14. Before him are Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Antoine-Henri Jomini, Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Thomas Graham, Carl Loewe, and Prince Leopold, Duke of Brabant. After him are Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Roger Fenton, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Carl Gustav Carus, Carl Reichenbach, and Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Hijikata Toshizō ranks 310 out of 6,048. Before him are Emperor Buretsu (489), Hisaichi Terauchi (1879), Toshiki Kaifu (1931), Shozo Tsugitani (1940), Jiro Miyake (1900), and Hideaki Anno (1960). After him are Ko Takamoro (1907), Ashikaga Yoshiaki (1537), Ko Yong-hui (1952), Kenji Miyazawa (1896), Yamato Takeru (72), and Shigechiyo Izumi (1865).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Hijikata Toshizō ranks 35. Before him are Nogi Maresuke (1849), Tamon Yamaguchi (1892), Kenji Doihara (1883), Saitō Hajime (1844), Takeichi Nishi (1902), and Hisaichi Terauchi (1879). After him are Nobutake Kondō (1886), Seishirō Itagaki (1885), Takijirō Ōnishi (1891), Otozō Yamada (1881), Sadao Araki (1877), and Takeo Kurita (1889).

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