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Viscount Kno Togama was a statesman in Meiji period Japan.

Kno was born in Kchi, Tosa Province as the eldest son of a local lowranking samurai. He was sent to Edo in 1858 where he studied under the noted Confucian scholar, Yasui Sokken. On his return to Tosa in 1861, he joined the Tosa Kinnoto movement organized by Takechi Hanpeita and Sakamoto Ryma and became active in the Sonn ji movement. In 1862, along with 59 other Tosa samurai, he marched on Kyoto and Edo in an attempt to influence national policy, but was captured by security forces of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1863 and sentenced to six years in prison. Tortured while in prison, he refused to recant and his sentence was extended to life imprisonment.

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