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Kawakami Gensai, one of the four great Hitokiri of the Bakumatsu, could
be mistaken for a girl at first glance, but his nature was the complete
opposite of his appearance; he was a cold, calculating man said to be the
most terrible of the four.
He was famous for cutting down Kuma Shouzan in broad daylight with his
unique, lightning-fast Furanui style of Kenjutsu. Whether he was responsible
for other assassinations is still a mystery. After the new era was brought
in, his ideas about isolationism conflicted with that of the governments,
and he was tried on false charges and executed in the fourth year of the
Meiji era (1871).
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