Takeda Kōunsai (武田耕雲斎, 1803 – March 1, 1865) was a Japanese samurai from Mito Domain and councillor to Mito daimyō Tokugawa Nariaki in Bakumatsu period Japan. He became the leader of the Mito Rebellion and was executed by the Tokugawa shogunate with a large number of his followers shortly before the Meiji Restoration.
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1803 Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
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4 February 1865 (aged 61) Tsuruga, Fukui, Japan
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