Shimazu Hisamitsu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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samurai of the late Edo period. younger brother of Shimazu Nariakira
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Place of Birth: Kagoshima, Japan
About Shimazu Hisamitsu
- Prince Shimazu Hisamitsu (?? ??, November 28, 1817 – December 6, 1887), also known as Shimazu Saburo (?? ??), was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period.
- The younger brother of Shimazu Nariakira, Hisamitsu served as regent for his underage son Tadayoshi, who became the 12th and last daimyo of Satsuma Domain.
- Hisamitsu was instrumental in the efforts of the southern Satsuma, Choshu, and Tosa clans to bring down the Tokugawa Shogunate.
- Hisamitsu held the court title of Osumi no Kami (???).
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