Kawakami genasi hitokiri wrestler
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Kawakami Gensai (河上彦斎)
Gensai KAWAKAMI (December 25, 1834 - January 13, 1873) was a Japanese samurai of Sonno Joi ha (supporters of the doctrine for restoring the emperor and expelling the barbarians) (statesman of the Kumamoto Clan).
Kawakami genasi hitokiri wrestler
His imina (personal name) was Haruakira. He was one of the Bakumatsu Shidai Hitokiri (Four famous assassins of Bakumatsu, end of the Edo period).
Biography
In 1863, at the age of 30, he was recommended to be the chief equivalent to Teizo MIYABE in the selection of army for the Kumamoto clan.
Generally, he is known as "Hitokiri Gensai" (Gensai the killer); however, the only person he actually killed was Shozan SAKUMA, and it is unknown as to when, who and how many people he killed thereafter. He stood only about 150 cm and had fair skin, looking like a woman at first glance.
He taught himself how to use a sword; yet he was known to be adept at drawing a sword with only one hand (from the position as low as one knee almost touching the ground, cutti