The last samurai : the life and battles of Saigō Takamori /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- "Powerfully sentimental", Saigo's early years in Satsuma
- "A man of exceptional fidelity", Saigo and national politics
- "Bones in the earth", exile and ignominy
- "To shoulder the burdens of the realm", the destruction of the Shogunate
- "To tear asunder the clouds", Saigo and the Meiji State
- "The burden of death is light", the war of the southwest.