Saga Rebellion

Saga Rebellion
	Part of the Shizoku rebellions of the Meiji period
	; An ukiyo-e of the Saga Rebellion
Date	16 February 1874 – 9 April 1874
Location	Saga Prefecture
Result	Government victory; rebellion crushed
Belligerents
Meiji Government Imperial Japanese Army Imperial Japanese Navy	Rebels of former Saga Domain
Commanders and leaders
Ōkubo Toshimichi Prince Komatsu Akihito Shizuo Nozu Yamada Akiyoshi	Etō Shinpei † Shima Yoshitake † Hisatake Asakura †
Strength
c. 5000 soldiers and policemen c. 5000 shizoku volunteers	11,000 Saga rebels 3,000 members of the Seikantō Party & Ugoku League
Casualties and losses
147 killed 209 wounded	173 killed 160 wounded Other leaders were executed in Nagasaki Prison

The Saga Rebellion (佐賀の乱, Saga no ran) was an 1874 uprising in Kyūshū against the new Meiji government of Japan.^[3] It was led by Etō Shinpei and Shima Yoshitake in their native domain of Hizen.

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