Byakkotai

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Statue of a Byakko-tai warriors at Iimori Hill, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
Statue of a Byakko-tai warriors at Iimori Hill, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.

The Byakkotai (Japanese: 白虎隊 means "White Tiger Corps") was a group of young, predominantly teenage, samurai who committed seppuku (a form of ritual suicide) on a hillside overlooking the castle after seeing its defenses breached, during the Battle of Aizu, in the 1868-1869 Boshin war. However the Byakkōtai were sadly mistaken in their assessment of defeat, as the castle defenses had not actually been breached.


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