[Machine Translation] On October 13, Keio 3, in the grand hall of Nijo Castle in Kyoto, the fifteenth shogun, Yoshinobu Tokugawa, announced that he would return the Great Government to power. Here ended nearly 300 years of shogunate rule. -The situation was to roll downhill to the Meiji Restoration. Ryoma, however, did not see it coming, but left the door of history open to the future, like a meteor... The "Postscripts" are included at the end of the book.