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About Okada Izō
- Okada Izo (?? ??, February 14, 1838 – June 3, 1865) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, feared as one of the four most notable assassins of the Bakumatsu period.
- He was born in Tosa to the goshi Okada Gihei, who had been a peasant but had bought the goshi rank.
- Izo and Tanaka Shinbei were active in Kyoto as assassins under the leadership of Takechi Hanpeita. He was involved in the killing of Homma Seiichiro.
- In 1865 however, he was involved in yet another assassination, that of Yoshida Toyo, the regent of Tosa whom he killed before his rise to power.
- Izo was captured, tortured and beheaded by government forces on June 3rd, 1865.
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