Otobe Gonoshin (乙部剛之進)
Gonoshin OTOBE (? - June 20, 1869) was a feudal retainer of the Matsuyama clan in Bicchu in Bicchu Province in the end of Edo period. Later, he joined Shinsengumi (a group who guarded Kyoto during the end of Tokugawa Shogunate). He is said to have used another name Ginjiro TAKEBE.
After fighting in various places, he joined Takeaki ENOMOTO fleet in Sendai, and joined Shinsengumi under control of Toshizo HIJIKATA. He went to Ezo.
He was killed at Benten Daiba in the all-out assault of Hakodate in the Hakodate War.