Osugi Sakae Jijoden

[Machine Translation] This masterpiece was first serialized in 1921 in response to a request from the magazine Kaizo, but was left unfinished due to the Great Kanto Earthquake (the Amakasu Incident). (A young boy with a white arm who aspires to become a future army general, while supporting Saigo Nanshu (a rebel who bowed to the Emperor), thinks of freedom, defies authority, and expands his life in the era of "clouds on the hill" between the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars.

1921(大正10)年―、雑誌『改造』の求めで連載を起こすも、関東大震災下の「甘粕事件」により、未完で遺された傑作。「陛下に弓をひいた謀叛人」西郷南洲に肩入れしながら、未来の陸軍元帥を志す一人の腕白少年が、日清・日露の戦役にはさまれた「坂の上の雲」の時代に、自由を思い、権威に逆らい、生を拡充していく―、ビルドゥングスロマンの色濃い青春勉強の記。