Aoyama Yukiyoshi

Viscount Aoyama Yukiyoshi (青山 幸宜, December 9, 1854 – February 5, 1930) was the 7th and final daimyō of Gujō Domain under the Bakumatsu period Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan.

During the Meiji period, he was a politician and member of the House of Peers of the Diet of Japan.

Aoyama Yukiyoshi refused to support either side, and many of the pro-Tokugawa samurai rallied around the son of his chief retainer and formed a type of freikorps which joined the defenders at the Battle of Aizu in the Boshin War.

The new Meiji government awarded Aoyama for his inactivity, and appointed him imperial governor of Gujō-Hachiman in 1868.

[2] He later served as president of Nippon Printing Company, and as a director on the Iwakura Railway School.