Kasuya Juro (粕屋十郎)
Juro KASUYA (1840 - June 20, 1869) was a Shogun's retainer in the end of Edo period and a member of Kaitentai from Edo, Musashi Province. Later, he joined Shinsengumi (a group who guarded Kyoto during the end of Tokugawa Shogunate).
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His family name is usually spelled 粕屋, but there is another theory that it was 糟屋.
During the Boshin War, he moved from place to place to fight as a member of Kaitentai, and then he went to Ezo.
In February 1869, he joined Shinsengumi under control of Toshizo HIJIKATA in Hakodate. In the all-out assault of Hakodate in the Hakodate War, he was killed in Samugawa, where the New government army landed. Died at 30.