Yoshida Toyo was a Japanese

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was his nephew-in-law. In 1853, Toyo was appointed by the head of Tosa domain Yamanouchi Toyoshige to reform and modernize the domain. He was assassinated on 6 May 1862 by three members of Tosa Kinnoto, a local political reform party.

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{{Samurai-stub 1816 births 1862 deaths People from Tosa Domain Assassinated Japanese people 19th-century Japanese people