Saigo Takamori Koten Ni Tatsu Yama Nogotoku (Shio Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Ryoma Sakamoto dies. Saisuke Godai receives urgent news from Saigo Takamori. Saisuke Godai remembers the history between Sakamoto and Godai that led to the Satcho alliance. Saiyosu Godai is overwhelmed, but after the battle of Toba-Fushimi, he learns from Okubo Ichizo that Saigo had committed suicide by drowning himself 10 years earlier. The story goes back to 10 years before that. The story goes back 10 years to the Amami exile, the overthrow of the shogunate, the conflict with the new government, and the Seinan War. The half life of a "hero" as seen by those who ran with him through the ages.

坂本龍馬死す。五代才助に西郷隆盛から急報が届く。薩長同盟へ続く坂本と五代の因縁を覚えていたのだ。圧倒される五代だが、鳥羽伏見の戦い後、大久保一蔵から西郷が10年前に入水自殺を図った過去を聞く。物語はその10年前に遡り―。奄美流罪、倒幕、新政府との確執、そして西南戦争へ。ともに時代を駆けた人々が見た「英雄」の半生。