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	Chapter One ~ Family Ties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Not too long after their departure, Kenshin and Touji are discovered by Katsura Kogoro and Takasugi Shinsaku during the recruitment activities to form an anti-shogunate group of warriors called The Kiheitai.
		Kogoro decides to designate Kenshin as a hitokiri for the Ishinshishi, and that Touji go with him to learn more about the Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu style from her brother.
		Shinsaku warns Kogoro that using such a young boy to fulfill the cruel duties of an assassin will surely destroy the boy's life, and that the girl will be horrified with the sights of her brother slaying people.
	www.freewebs.com /hitokiribattousai/ch1.html (707 words)

	samurai7 - @ myblog.de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Katsura's main job was dismantling the old han system and setting up the new system of prefectures and governors, purging the old chains of command and setting up a new one composed of all new people.
		Katsura thought Meiji should set Japan a moral example, and should be an accessible monarch in touch with he problems of humanity.
		Katsura, Okubo and Saigo didn't have a concrete plan to make this pseudo-democracy happen so they were at each other's throats and "set up a number of governmental organs that rose and fell in rapid succession." The highly visible emperor was used to cover up their backstage in-fighting.
	myblog.de /samurai7/page/205907 (1217 words)

	[No title]
		Katsura, noted to himself "greater opponent" could extend beyond just the Shinsengumi forces and his Shadow was critical to the revolution- he would need to be protected in some way.
		In the moments thereafter, Katsura was still motionless before heaving a deep sigh and proceeded about a back route to one of his safehouses.
		Katsura did not waver at the threat, rather, placed his own hand upon his hilt and stared deep into the child's eyes.
	www.hachi-roku.net /shinta/fan/painfreak_03.txt (1664 words)

	Terms
		Saigo Takamori's uprising in the Seinan War - Katsura Kogoro, overworked, was frequently bedridden.
		Katsura Ikumatsu - A Kyoto geisha and Katsura Kogoro’s lover, who became his wife after the Restoration.
		Katsura Kogoro - The young leader of the Choushuu Ishin Shishi, active as the leader of a substantial province.
	www.angelfire.com /anime3/ssrkshrine/Terms.htm (2037 words)

	...:::T H E - O R O .com :::...{REDEMPTION}
		These two were some of the leaders of the Choshu- In Watsuki's adaptation Katsura was more of the quiet and smart type, who kept to himself until needed, and Takasugi was more outgoing and playful, all the while quite serious.
		Katsura is the leader who created the Satsuma-Choshu alliance with Saigo and Okubo.
		Katsura, when he meets Tomoe, encourages her relationship with Kenshin, thinking that she will be able to control and bring back the "human" inside the Battousai, that Katsura, by hiring him, had killed off.
	www.the-oro.com /kk_lay.php?x=info/char/c_katsura&skin=3 (614 words)

	Biography
		And in the midst of the chaos, Himura was chosen to fulfil the cruellest role of all, to serve as a guard for the code of disorder, the disorder needed to overturn a dynasty that has reigned for 300 years.
		Kogoro realises it is harsh to request this of him now but there is no one else he can rely on to fulfil the role.
		Kogoro remembers Shinsaku's warning to him from that day he decided to use Battousai as a Hitokiri, 'It will ruin the boy's life...' Kogoro realises that he is at fault.
	www.angelfire.com /anime3/ssrkshrine/Biography.htm (6208 words)

	Absolute Anime / Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal / Katsura Kogoro
		Katsura is the leader of the Choshu Ishin Shishi, a clan who fought against the Shogunate.
		After the fall of the Choshu in Kyoto, Katsura sends Kenshin and Tomoe to live as husband and wife.
		Katsura then disappears until he visits Kenshin after Tomoe's death.
	www.absoluteanime.com /rurouni_kenshin/katsura.htm (131 words)

	Fire
		Katsura Kogoro was one of the three most influential Imperialists during the Bakumatsu, at least according to Watsuki.
		Katsura was one of the Isshin Shishi, the Hitokiri Battosai’s boss, et cetera, et cetera.
		Katsura died in the Satsuma Rebellion, which occured in 1877, so this is obviusly set before then...
	clarus.twistedperspective.com /snm_fire.htm (1344 words)

	Hitokiris Anonymous
		Katsura invites his hitokiri to join him when he attends a secret council during the Gion Festival, but his offer is immediately turned down.
		Katsura, impressed with Kenshin's skill, had asked the boy if he could kill for a new, peaceful era.
		From the first time Katsura had met the boy that would soon turn into the most feared hitokiri, the same pure hearted attitude was kept.
	www.thespectrum.net /hitokiri/manga/volume19/chapter166.shtml (317 words)

	Descent into Madness by Conspirator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Only yesterday she had received a letter from her patron, Katsura Kogoro, informing her that he and ten of his men would be arriving at her inn today and planning to stay for about a week.
		She regularly had about 20 men quartered in the inn, which was no problem since she had 15 rooms, but whenever Katsura himself came with his entourage, it meant having to double up all the men and laying in double the amount of food and drink.
		Katsura was waiting in the hall and started walking towards the dining room with them, but he was called aside by one of the men, so he motioned for Katagai and Kenshin to go in without him.
	meijitales.com /viewstory.php?sid=693 (4781 words)

	Kyoto Guesthouses
		Koin Kido (1833 – 1877), the politician during the Late Tokugawa Shogunate and the Meiji Restoration, used to be called Kogoro Katsura.
		Because this Ryokan was the “Hikae Yashiki for Choshu clan” (Staff headquarter of Meiji Restoration), it was attacked several times by Sinsen-gumi (some of the greatest swordsmen of Edo and masterless samurai in Kyoto hired to protect the shogunate and counteract those who supported the emperor) and those rooms still remain.
		This ryokan, Ikumatsu, is where Kogoro and Ikumatsu used to live; a ryokan with one of the longest and most distinguished history in Kyoto.
	www.kyotoguesthouses.com /guesthousedyn.php?GH_ID=56 (435 words)

	Kido Takayoshi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was adopted into the Katsura family at age seven, and until 1865 was known as Katsura Kogorō (桂小五郎).
		In the OVA of Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal, Katsura was the retainer of Kenshin Himura during his days as a hitokiri.
		Beasley, W. The Rise of Modern Japan: Political, Economic and Social Change Since 1850.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kido_Takayoshi (691 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		You do need to know, however, that Katsura Kogoro, the leader of the reform movement in which Kenshin played such an essential part, was the one who chose Kenshin to become the hitokiri.
		But Katsura reminisced with him about their misspent youth in Edo, and then talked a bit about the situation in Kyoto.
		There was no need for Kenshin and anger at Katsura, was in no mood to hear reason; and whatever regret Kenshin might have felt in leaving so abruptly disappeared before his master's wrath.
	www.nabiki.com /nichan/archive/Yaoi/Ukyioe.txt (3418 words)

	The Sword and the Chrysanthemum
		Kido Takayoshi/Katsura Kogoro was born August 11, 1833 (died May 26, 1877) in Hagi castletown in the Choshu province.
		He was born to Wada Musakage – a han physician with a 20 koku stipend.
		He was not the natural heir to his father, and was adopted at age 7 (1840) by the Katsura family), a family of higher ranking.
	red-bird.org /meiji/katsura/earlylife.htm (259 words)

	Snow Falling -&--&- A shrine to Tomoe
		One night Katsura Kogoro, Kenshin 's leader, calls Tomoe to his rooms and asks her to be Kenshin 's sheath.
		They meet up with Katsura Kogoro, who tells them to go to Otsu in the countryside, where they will pose as husband and wife until the Ishin Shishi gives them the word to move on.
		Katsura Kogoro comes to their home and seeing Tomoe dead bows his head.
	www.freewebs.com /whitesnowfalling/tomoe.htm (2195 words)

	otaku central
		Kogoro Katsura handpicked the boy to be his assassin in the shadows.
		But it was Katsura’s idea to use Tomoe as a sheath for Kenshin – literally and figuratively.
		Katsura: "My role in his life is to drive his passions and make him kill.
	homepage.mac.com /jubei1/kenshin/kenshin.html (3300 words)

	Prologo: the Boy meets the Man
		Kogoro continuò a chiederli se sarebbe mai stato capace di uccidere una persona.
		Kogoro decise di designare Kenshin a Hitokiri(assassino) per conto degli Ishin Shishi.
		Comunque Shinsaku avvertì Kogoro, che utilizzando un ragazzo così giovane per eseguire i crudeli incarichi di un assassino, avrebbe sicuramente distrutto la vita del ragazzo.
	www.shinta.net /Prologo.htm (729 words)

	:: intermezzo - a.kenshin.and.kaoru.shrine - fan fictions
		Katsura Kogoro was a regal, commanding figure, sensible, calm and collected in nearly every situation he was presented with.
		His voice, whether full of confidence or compassion, was always clear as his vision of what the future should hold for them all.
		This was inspired by a fic I once read in which Hiko and Katsura meet by chance.
	intermezzo.trabia-garden.net /fanfiction/kendo_no_go97.shtml (1007 words)

	The Reason: Part 4
		But instead of Katsura, it was the third stranger--the one who had not said a word in Kenshin's hearing yet--who spoke to diffuse the situation.
		Katsura and Takasugi shared another glance, their ki in growing agreement--but not necessarily in agreement with the three others.
		Uninformed he and the others might be, but they knew that the only reason Katsura Kogoro summoned the red-haired swordsman was either to brief him on a mission or debrief him after one.
	tailweaver.faithweb.com /rkenshin/reason/rkreason04.html (11418 words)

	www.japanesehistory.de - Personal Homepage of Sven Saaler
		Born as Katsura Kogoro in the feudal domain of Choshu (now Yamaguchi prefecutre), Kido Takayoshi (also read as Koin) was one of the "three pillars" of the Meiji Restoration (1867/68), the revolutionary event that brought down the Tokugawa Bakufu (together with Saigo Takamori and Okubo Toshimichi).
		After the mediation of Sakamoto Ryoma and Nakaoka Shintaro, Satsuma and Choshu had forged an alliance against the Tokugawa and triggered the collapse of the Bakufu after a short civil war in 1867/68.
		Kido was one of the central figures in the new Meiji government after 1868, but he died early in 1877 after falling ill.
	www.japanesehistory.de /cabinets/KidoTakayoshi.htm (110 words)

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		Katsura: It is an important meeting to decide the objectives of the organization.
		Katsura: Today is the last day of Katsura Kogoro as a swordsman.
		Katsura: Even if my body is left in the fields of Musashi, my patriotism will not change.
	home.columbus.rr.com /hallhtml/Anime/KenScript1.html (1861 words)

	Ryokan IKUMATSU History
		Although this location is peaceful at present, it was bustling with the clansmen of Satsuma and Choshu at the time of the closing days of the Tokugawa Shogunate toward the Meiji Restoration.
		Takayoshi Kido (Kogoro Katsura, 1833-1877), a veteran statesman of Imperial Restoration of Meiji, is well known to have played a vital role as an advocator of overthrowing the Shogunate.
		It is said that Ikumatsu got acquainted with Katsura around the year of Bunkyu.
	www.ikumatsu.com /history-eg.html (333 words)

	The Choshu Chronicles by omasuoniwabanshi
		He’d been the Battousai, Katsura’s pet assassin, until the incident at the Ikedaya Inn when the Shinsengumi, a police squad loyal to the Tokugawa Shogun, had decimated the ranks of the Choshu loyalists in Kyoto.
		Katsura had sent him, along with Tomoe, out of the city to pose as a married peasant couple.
		In his early thirties, Katsura had the assurance of a much older man. He kept his hair in a topknot folded over the top of his head.
	meijitales.com /viewstory.php?sid=584 (2208 words)

	Shinsengumi - Detailed Synopsis & Review
		Meanwhile, a woman named Ikumatsu(introduced as Katsura Kogoro's girlfriend) is walking hurriedly in the corridor of the inn.
		But, Katsura do not want to take it back, he said if they dont want the money so much just throw it to the river right there.
		Katsura introduce Isami to Sakamoto with an underestimating tone, "This is Isami Kondou, the heir of a poor dojo who use Tennen Ran Ryuu style....".
	nhkshinsengumi.tripod.com /ep1.html (2446 words)

	HakuBaikou.com
		Katsura watched them argue for a few moments, then stood and headed for the door.
		He stared at Katsura for a long time, until the sword dropped from his fingers and fell to the floor with a loud clatter.
		Katsura stood in silence for a moment, then bowed very low and left the former hitokiri to grieve alone.
	hakubaikou.com /contributors/akaikitsune/light05.html (2752 words)

	Shinsengumi - Miscellaneous!
		The popularity of the idol boy group, whose members now range in age from 27 to 31, has ceased to be a phenomenon that demands analysis, and the high ratings were certainly no surprise.
		Koji Yoshikawa, producer of the drama, said: "It is a fact that Kondo and Katsura were trainees at separate dojo in Tokyo.
		Some documents show that Kondo requested Katsura's help in having samurai from Katsura's dojo make up for the shortage of samurai at his own dojo when he received a dojo-yaburi challenge (mock fighting between a samurai from one dojo and samurai at another).
	nhkshinsengumi.tripod.com /misc.html (1246 words)

	The Animé Café - A Parent's Guide to Anime
		Is it justified for the leaders Katsura Kogoro and Takasuki Shinsaku to use a 15 year old boy as an assassin, or is it evil?
		A woman Kenshin meets is personally affected by his assassinations, and she tries to convince Kenshin that good cannot be born from murder.
		Even Kenshin's leader (Katsura), who's trying to overthrow the government, struggles with training an innocent boy to be a killer.
	www.abcb.com /kenshin/rko_apga.htm (1764 words)

	Rurouni Kenshin OVA (Samurai X) Review by Gara - DALnet #anime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tomoe Yukishiro enters Kenshin's life through a coincedence, but her caring begins to open his eyes to both his own nature and the nature of others that he has forgotten.
		Katsura Kogoro leads the Choshu clan, and is dedicated to fighting the Shogunate.
		Takasugi hated the opression caused by the Tokugawa and with Katsura, built the Kihei-Tai, the army dedicated to defeating the Shogunate.
	anime.oddball.net /reviewshow.cfm?ReviewID=108&disp=1 (491 words)

	Kenshin OVA # 2
		Katsura: I didn't say there was anything wrong with it.
		Katsura: You guys be careful of the Shinsen-gumi.
		Katsura: He is a good man, but at times he has a tendency to rush into
	home.columbus.rr.com /hallhtml/Anime/KenScript2.htm (1852 words)

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