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Fujita Koshiro was born in 1842. He was the fourth son of Toko Fujita, a great Confucian scholar.
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In 1863, he followed his lord, Yoshiatsu Tokugawa, to Kyoto, and there he joined the pro-Imperialist and anti-foreign movement. In 1864, he was among those who rose in revolt for the imperial cause at Mt. Tsukuba in Ibaraki Prefecture, under the leadership of Inenoemon Tamaru, a town magistrate of the Mito Clan. The rebels, joining with the forces of Yorinori Matsudaira in Naka Minato near Mito, at one time controled the area but were defeated by Shogunate forces in the end. Fujita made Kounsai Takeda as the leader of his band and attempted to proceed to Kyoto to make a direct appeal to Shogun Yoshinobu Tokugawa. Enroute to Kyoto, however, he surrendered to the forces of the Kaga Clan and was beheaded in Tsuruga (Fukui Prefecture).
