MILITARY PERSONNEL

Kawakami Gensai

1834 - 1872

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Kawakami Gensai (河上 彦斎, 25 December 1834 – 13 January 1872) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period. A highly skilled swordsman, he was one of the four most notable assassins of the Bakumatsu period. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kawakami Gensai has received more than 780,793 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kawakami Gensai is the 554th most popular military personnel (down from 434th in 2019), the 330th most popular biography from Japan (down from 196th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Kawakami Gensai ranks 554 out of 2,058. Before him are Vladimir Gelfand, Fritz Bayerlein, Peroz III, Karl Silberbauer, Harpagus, and Franz von Hipper. After him are Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Seishirō Itagaki, Bob Denard, Oenomaus, Hans Baur, and Kurt Franz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Kawakami Gensai ranks 21. Before him are Norodom of Cambodia, Vasily Perov, Aleksis Kivi, Charles Spurgeon, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Kondō Isami. After him are John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska, Carl Bloch, Gaston Planté, William Chester Minor, and Heinrich von Treitschke. Among people deceased in 1872, Kawakami Gensai ranks 18. Before him are William John Macquorn Rankine, Ljudevit Gaj, Aleksis Kivi, Immanuel Nobel, Zeng Guofan, and Mary Somerville. After him are George Robert Gray, Prince Albert of Prussia, Princess Feodora of Leiningen, John Frederick Kensett, Vladimir Dal, and William H. Seward.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kawakami Gensai ranks 330 out of 6,245. Before him are Saitō Makoto (1858), Kakuei Tanaka (1918), Tatsuya Nakadai (1932), Emperor Uda (867), Shoichi Nishimura (1912), and Emperor Ankan (466). After him are Seishirō Itagaki (1885), Sesshū Tōyō (1420), Tokugawa Ieharu (1737), Emperor Go-Hanazono (1419), Jisaburō Ozawa (1886), and Saburō Sakai (1916).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Kawakami Gensai ranks 30. Before him are Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), Tamon Yamaguchi (1892), Hijikata Toshizō (1835), Saitō Hajime (1844), and Mitsuo Fuchida (1902). After him are Seishirō Itagaki (1885), Jisaburō Ozawa (1886), Saburō Sakai (1916), Kenji Doihara (1883), Taira no Masakado (903), and Takeichi Nishi (1902).

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