Sagawa Kanbei
, also known as Sagawa Naoki (1831–1877), was a military figure of the Aizu Domain at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was also a police officer during the Meiji era before he was killed at the Siege of Kumamoto Castle in 1877. Biography Bakumatsu era He was born the son of Naomichi Sagawa, a samurai of the Aizu Domain. In 1862, he followed the feudal lord, Matsudaira Katamori, and served as a head of the school before serving as a school magistrate. When the Boshin War broke out in January 1868, Kanbei served the Aizu Domain and participated in the Battle of Toba–Fushimi. His service during the battle earned him the nickname of Kikanbei. After the battle, he returned to Aizu and went to participate in the Battle of Hokuetsu, but when the war situation became unfavorable, he left the front with the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei clans and returned to Aizu. In the Battle of Aizu on August 29, he led about 1,000 elites and was appointed commander of the castle's counter-attack force. However, he was drunk with the sake he received from his feudal lord the night before the attack, and was defeated late in the sortie,