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SAIGO, TAKAMORI (1832-1877)

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SAIGO, TAKAMORI (1832-1877) , See also:Japanese patriot, was See also:born in Satsuma in 1832. From See also:early youth he took a prominent See also:part in the politics of his See also:clan, and owing to his extreme opinions with regard to the expediency of abolishing the See also:Tokugawa See also:administration, he was banished (1858) to the See also:island of See also:Oshima (Satsuma), where he attempted unsuccessfully to commit See also:suicide. Ultimately he See also:rose to high See also:rank in the newly organized imperial See also:government, but in 1873 he retired from the See also:cabinet by way of protest against its decision not to take armed See also:action against See also:Korea. Thenceforth he became the rallying point of a large number of men dissatisfied with the new administration, and in 1877 he headed a See also:rebellion which taxed all the resources of the central government. 'After several months of desperate fighting, Saigo and a small remnant of his followers made a See also:swift See also:retreat to Kagoshima, and See also:fell fighting (See also:September 14) within sight of their homes. Saigo's patriotism and his See also:great services in the cause of the restoration of the administrative See also:power to the See also:throne were so fully recognized that his son was raised to the See also:peerage with the See also:title of See also:marquess, and his own memory was honoured by the erection of a See also:bronze statue in See also:Tokyo.

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