Yasuoka Ryōsuke
Yasuoka Ryōsuke 安岡良亮 | |
|---|---|
| Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture | |
| In office February 22, 1876 – October 24, 1876 | |
| Monarch | Meiji |
| Preceded by | Office Established |
| Succeeded by | Takaaki Tomioka |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Governor of Kumamoto Prefecture April 8, 1825 Nakamura, Tosa Domain |
| Died | December 27, 1876 (aged 51) |
| Manner of death | Assassination |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Tosa Domain Empire of Japan |
| Branch | Imperial Japanese Army |
| Years of service | 1868 — 1876 |
| Battles/wars | Boshin War Saga Rebellion Shinpūren rebellion † |
Yasuoka Ryōsuke (1825–1876) was a feudal lord of the Tosa Domain and a samurai of the Jinshotai in the late Edo period. He was a bureaucrat in the first half of the Meiji era, Shirakawa prefectural ordinance, and Kumamoto prefecture ordinance.
During the Boshin War, he captured and beheaded Kondō Isami. He was the great-grandfather of Masahiro Yasuoka, a Yomei scholar who wrote Yangmingism drafting sentences of the imperial rescript during World War II.