Background
Kinshiro Ishii was born in 1831.
石井金四郎
Kinshiro Ishii was born in 1831.
Belonging to the Mito clan of Ibaraki Prefecture, Kinshiro Ishii was highly critical of the weak Shogun policy against foreigners since the Ansei Era. Began forming a conspiracy and attacked the British Legation in Shiba, Edo, but was wounded, taken prisoner and died in prison (1861).