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Who led the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877?

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The emperor Meiji — Meiji Restoration After the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Meiji emperor became the formal head of a new imperial government under whose reign Japan was transformed from an isolated feudal society into a modern, industrialized global power.

The Satsuma Rebellion of 1877 was led by Saigō Takamori.12

A prominent hero of the Meiji Restoration who had previously directed the military campaign against the Tokugawa shogunate, Saigō eventually became disillusioned with the direction of the new Imperial government. His grievances were rooted in the government's modernization policies, particularly the introduction of conscription, which stripped the samurai of their traditional military monopoly, and the rejection of his proposal to invade Korea.3142

Following his resignation from the government in 1873, Saigō returned to his home in Satsuma, where he established a private school that attracted thousands of disaffected former samurai. Tensions between these followers and the central government in Tokyo culminated in the 1877 insurrection, which the government ultimately suppressed.142