Yamakawa Hiroshi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yamakawa Hiroshi

Japanese general

Date of Birth: 04-Dec-1845

Place of Birth: Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 04-Feb-1898

Profession: military personnel, politician

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Baron Yamakawa Hiroshi (?? ?, 4 December 1845 – 6 March 1898) was a samurai of late Edo period Japan who went on to become a noted general in the early Meiji period Imperial Japanese Army.
An Aizu retainer famous for his ingenious strategies against the early Meiji government during the Boshin War to overthrow the Tokugawa bakufu, he was of the first people from Aizu to write a history of the years leading up to the war, together with his brother Yamakawa Kenjiro.