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Kawai Tsugunosuke

1827–1868 · 19th century

Kawai Tsugunosuke was a senior retainer of the Nagaoka domain in Echigo who reformed its finances and modernised its army with rifles and Gatling guns. In the Boshin War of 1868 he sought armed neutrality, but when imperial forces refused, he led Nagaoka in one of the hardest-fought campaigns of the war. He died of his wounds that year.

Kawai Tsugunosuke
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Nagaoka Domain

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Kawai Tsugunosuke. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/kawai-tsugunosuke
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