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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 708,990 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Kawakami Gensai is the 427th most popular military personnel, the 197th most popular biography from Japan and the 24th most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Kawakami Gensai ranks 427 out of 1,468. Before him are Muqali, John of Austria the Younger, Cao Ren, August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Laskarina Bouboulina, and Karl Mack von Leiberich. After him are Yoshiko Kawashima, Leopold Joseph von Daun, Mikhail Kirponos, Stonewall Jackson, Petre Dumitrescu, and Josef Harpe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1834, Kawakami Gensai ranks 15. Before him are Duchess Helene in Bavaria, August Weismann, Amilcare Ponchielli, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Charles Spurgeon, and Vasily Perov. After him are Norodom of Cambodia, Jan Neruda, Johann Philipp Reis, Julia Pastrana, Aleksis Kivi, and Tekla Bądarzewska-Baranowska. Among people deceased in 1872, Kawakami Gensai ranks 10. Before him are Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Charles XV of Sweden, Théophile Gautier, Benito Juárez, Princess Feodora of Leiningen, and Franz Grillparzer. After him are N. F. S. Grundtvig, William Webb Ellis, William John Macquorn Rankine, Stanisław Moniuszko, Prince Albert of Prussia, and Zeng Guofan.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Kawakami Gensai ranks 197 out of 6,048. Before him are Shoko Asahara (1955), Emperor Seimu (83), Masahito, Prince Hitachi (1935), Shohei Imamura (1926), Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (1646), and Yohji Yamamoto (1943). After him are D. T. Suzuki (1870), Masao Nozawa (null), Katsura Tarō (1848), Mori Ōgai (1862), Kobayashi Issa (1763), and Emperor Chūai (149).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Kawakami Gensai ranks 24. Before him are Sanada Yukimura (1567), Shoichi Yokoi (1915), Yamagata Aritomo (1838), Mitsuo Fuchida (1902), Honda Tadakatsu (1548), and Mitsuru Ushijima (1887). After him are Saburō Sakai (1916), Okita Sōji (1842), Jisaburō Ozawa (1886), Shunroku Hata (1879), Nogi Maresuke (1849), and Tamon Yamaguchi (1892).

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