Kawai Tsugunosuke
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| Intro | Samurai | |
| A.K.A. | Kawai Akiyoshi Kawai Tsugunosuke | |
| A.K.A. | Kawai Akiyoshi Kawai Tsugunosuke | |
| Places | Japan | |
| was | Military leader Samurai | |
| Work field | Military | |
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| Birth | 27 January 1827, Nagaoka | |
| Death | 1 October 1868Tadami (aged 41 years) |
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Kawai Tsugunosuke (河井 継之助, January 27, 1827 – October 1, 1868) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period, who served the Makino clan of Nagaoka. Kawai was a senior military commander of Nagaoka forces during the Boshin War of 1868-1869. He escaped to nearby Aizu after his domain's fall; however, he contracted gangrene from an untreated leg wound, and died in Aizu.