[Machine Translation] As the saying goes, "If you win, you are the government; if you lose, you are the rebels. These words are very close to my heart when talking about the "Shinsengumi," a group that embraced ambition and remained loyal to the Shogunate until the very end. What did the Shinsengumi think and fight for when they were forced to leave their hometown of Hino and head north as a "bandit army" after their spectacular successes in Kyoto? Now, 150 years after the Meiji Restoration, this long-awaited book reexamines the lives of these men who were scattered across the northern lands.