Fukuoka Takachika

Viscount Fukuoka Takachika was a Japanese statesman of the Meiji period.

Fukuoka was born in Tosa District in presentday Kchi Prefecture, and served the Yamauchi daimy of Tosa as a domain official. Together with fellow Tosa samurai Got Shjir, he went to Kyoto in 1867 to convince Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu to return power peacefully to the Emperor, thus bringing about the Meiji Restoration.

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