nntsuzu/KFTT huggingface dataset:
English: This is the world view and the view of history that the Mitogaku School and Kokugaku comprehend as a contraposition of Japanse ideals and others (Kokoku Shikan).
Japanese: これは水戸学派や国学が日本とそれ以外との対置と捉える世界観・史観（皇国史観。
English: That is based on the world view and a view of history that contrasts China and other countries of Chu His that changed to the Japanese way.
Japanese: 朱子学の華と夷を対置する世界観・史観を日本風に改めたもの）を基にしている。
English: There is a hand-written copy of 'Genshi-shiroku' by Saigo, which must have been the most influential book on him, because he brought it everywhere during the Seinan War.
Japanese: 西郷が手写した「言志録」が残っており、西南戦争のときにもこの書を座右の書として持ち歩いていたことからみると、最も影響を受けた書であると考えられる。
English: He might have been inspired by this study to use the knowledge for the public, because Yomeigaku is based on a philosophy of Chiko-Goitsu (awareness comes only through practice).
Japanese: 陽明学は知行合一を理念としているので、知識を世人の役立つようにしようとする点では、この学の影響を受けたかもしれない。
English: But, viewing it from the perspective that Saigo's activity was mostly based on the theory of legitimate reasons, his aggressive activity might have been inspired by Chu His, but it's not clear how much he was influenced by it.
Japanese: しかし、西郷の行動は、その大半が大義名分にもとづく行動であるという面から見れば、その積極的な行動は朱子学から導き出されたものであるとも言え、どのくらい影響を受けたは判然としない。
English: Sean had relationship with Senan at the end of the shogunate, in 1871 he sent Shinpachi MURATA to Senan's place and received the twelve regulations of action, then he went to Kyoto for reformation of the nation's politics with it at his side.
Japanese: 西郷は幕末に潜庵とつきあいがあり、明治4年（1871年）に村田新八を潜庵の元に派遣し、対策12ヶ条を得て、それを持って大政改革のために上京している。
English: It is understood that Saigo evaluated Senan of Yomeigakusha highly (a scholar of Yomeigaku Neo-Confucianism) from those, but it's not clear which parts he had learned as an ideology.
Japanese: これらから西郷が陽明学者の潜庵を高く評価していたことは分かるが、思想としてどの部分を学んだかはよく分からない。
English: He was a chirographer who was in Saigo's favor when he was exiled to Oki-no-erabujima island, and he supported the bereaved after his death.
Japanese: 沖永良部島に遠島されたときに西郷と知遇を得た書家であり、西郷没後に遺族の扶養に勤めた人物である。
English: In the reminiscences of Mitsuru, when he visited Saigo's residence after the Seinan war in 1879, he saw a hand-written note about his favorite book, or "Senshin Dosatsuki" by Heihachiro OSHIO of the Yomeigakusha at end of shogunate, and this let him know how much Saigo adored Oshio.
Japanese: 頭山満の回想では、西南戦争後の明治12年（1879年）当時に西郷家を訪れた折に、応対した雪篷から西郷が愛読し手書きの書き込みがある、幕末の陽明学者大塩平八郎の書『洗心洞剳記』を見せられ、西郷がいかに大塩を慕っていたかを知らされたとある。
English: 'Every way is in heaven, earth or nature. Humans, who act in these ways, should aim to revere heaven.
Japanese: 「道は天地自然の物にして、人は之を行ふものなれば、天を敬するを目的とす。
English: Takamori knew that the Kikuchi clan was the place of his origin, but, since he did not know which Kikuchi clan he was descended from, so he made his genealogy starting after Kurobei, which is in the Kirokusho (government agency of lawsuits) domain.
Japanese: 隆盛は菊池氏が出自であることを知っていたが、菊池氏のどの家から分かれたかわからないので、藩の記録所にある九郎兵衛以下のみを自分の系譜としている。
English: According to a theory of Kenichi KOSHUN, the place of origin of the Saigo family before Kurobei was supposed to be the Masumizu-Saigo clan.
Japanese: 九郎兵衛より前は西郷家の出自とされる増水西郷氏の系譜に繋いでつくった系譜である（香春建一説による）。
English: His first marriage was recommended by his parents, and married he Suga (Suga IJUIN) who was an older sister of Kanehiro IJUIN.
Japanese: 1度目は嘉永5年（1852年）28歳のとき両親にすすめられて伊集院兼寛の姉すが（伊集院須賀）と結婚した。
English: But because he was out most of the time since he went to Edo as a deputy of the load of domain, she went back her parent's home and divorced him.
Japanese: しかしながら藩主の代わりに江戸におもむくなど隆盛は不在が多く、彼女は実家に帰り別れた。
English: His second marriage was when he was living alone at the Fusoku house of six seki in Tatsugo-mura, he married Aikana (Aigana, means Aiko) who was a daughter of Saeshi of Ryu, who was from important family on the island.
Japanese: 2度目は奄美大島の龍郷村で6石扶持一軒家で自炊していた際、島の名家であった龍家の佐栄志の娘・愛加那（あいがな、意味は愛子）と結婚。
English: When he was thirty-five he had two children, Kikujiro on January 2, 1860 (of the old calendar), (later mayor of Kyoto city), and Okiku (later Kikuko married a brother of Iwao OYAMA) in 1862.
Japanese: 35歳の安政7年（1860年）1月2日(旧暦)に菊次郎（後の京都市市長）・文久2年（1862年）にお菊（のち菊子、大山巌の弟と結婚）の二人の子供をもうけた。
English: At the end of 1861, when he returned to Kagoshima, there was a regulation that he was unable to take a wife on the island, so they divorced.
Japanese: 文久元年（1861年）末に、鹿児島に帰る際、島妻は鹿児島へ連れ出せない規則があったので別れた。
English: His third wife was a daughter of Hachiro IWAYAMA, her name was Itoko and she was twenty-three years old, and when they married he was 39 years old.
Japanese: 3度目の妻は慶応元年（1865年）岩山八郎太の23歳の娘、糸子で、39歳のときに結婚。
English: He had three children, Torataro (marquis), Umajiro, and Torizo, they took charge of the two children from his ex-wife Aikana, Kikujiro and Okiku.
Japanese: 寅太郎（侯爵）・午次郎・酉三の3人の子供をもうけ、先の妻、愛加那の二人の子菊次郎、お菊を引き取った。
English: Incidentally, Torajiro married Nobu, a daughter of Sanenori SONODA who was the brother of Yutaka TAKE and Koshiro TAKE's great-grandfather, so they were distantly related.
Japanese: ちなみに、寅太郎は武豊・武幸四郎の曾祖父の兄弟である園田実徳の娘・ノブと結婚しているため、彼らは遠縁に当たる。
English: According to Tomonosuke TAKASHIMA, Saigo was overweight because he lost a lot of weight when he took refuge at Oshima, and almost died en route to Oki-no-erabujima island, so the truth might be that he started to gain weight when he was in zashikiro because of lack of exercise at the latter end of his stay on Oki-no-erabujima island.
Japanese: 高島鞆之助の言では西郷は大島潜居の頃から肥満になったとしているが、おそらく沖永良部島流罪当時は痩せこけて死にそうになっていたというから、沖永良部在島後半期に座敷牢にいて運動不足から肥満し始めたというのが真相だろう。
English: Also, Kagoshima is a place where traditional pig farming from Eastern Asia was prosperous, and Saigo's favorite was fatty pork that is said to accelerate obesity.
Japanese: 鹿児島は養豚東アジアの伝統的な養豚の盛んな地であり、西郷は脂身のついた豚肉が大好物だったので、それが肥満に拍車をかけたと推測される。
English: In 1873, when he was Seikanron, he was treated by a German doctor Theodor Hoffmann for his obesity.
Japanese: 明治6年（1873年）の征韓論当時は肥満を治そうとしてドイツ人医師テオドール・ホフマンの治療を受けていた。
English: The first treatment is drinking ricinus as a laxative, and the other was exercising.
Japanese: 一つはひまし油（ひましゆ）を下剤として飲む方法であり、もう一つは運動をする方法であった。
English: In the latter case, the book of "IKENOUE Shiro Kazo Zakki (notes owned by Shiro IKENOUE)" (Shiro ICHIKI "Ishimuro Hiko (data Shiro ICHIKI collected)" included in the National Diet Library) wrote that Saigo Sensei was out hunting, which was a treatment for obesity, as was written in the letter for Shiro IKEGAMI from Chuhei SAKAKI.
Japanese: 後者については『池上四郎家蔵雑記』（市来四郎『石室秘稿』所収、国立国会図書館蔵）中の池上四郎宛彭城中平書簡にこの治療期間中に西郷先生が肥満の治療のために狩猟に出かけて留守だと書いている。
English: Takamori SAIGO contracted the parasitic nematode Wuchereria bancrofti on Oki-no-erabujima island where he was exiled, and he developed elephantiasis as one of the after-effects of his illness.
Japanese: 西郷隆盛は、流刑先の沖永良部島で、風土病のバンクロフト糸状虫という寄生虫に感染したとされ、この感染の後遺症である象皮症を患っていた。
English: After the Sennan War, his enlarged scrotum was used to ensure that the headless body in fact belonged to Saigo.
Japanese: 西南戦争後の、首の無い西郷の死体を本人のものと特定させたのは、この巨大な陰嚢である。
English: However, filaria caused by the Wuchereria bancrofti nematode was found throughout Japan and mainly in the south of Kyushu until relatively recently, so it cannot be confirmed that he contracted the infection in Oki-no-erabujima Island.
Japanese: ただし、比較的近年に至るまでバンクロフト糸状虫によるフィラリア感染症は九州南部を中心に日本各地に見られ、疫学的には必ずしも感染地を沖永良部島には特定できない。
English: In infection tests of army recruits conducted as of 1911, the infection rate was found to be greater than 4% among individuals from Kagoshima Prefecture on Kyushu Island, with the infection found in as gar north as Aomori Prefecture.
Japanese: 明治44年（1911年）の段階の陸軍入隊者の感染検査で、鹿児島県九州本島部分出身者の感染率は4%を超えていたし、北は青森県まで感染者が確認されている。
English: 'Saigo-don' was an expression in Kagoshima dialect meaning 'Mr. Saigo' (the local pronunciation is close to 'Sego-don'), it not only shows respect for elders, but also includes a friendly connotation.
Japanese: 「西郷どん」とは「西郷殿」の鹿児島弁表現（現地での発音は「セゴドン」に近い）であり、目上の者に対する敬意だけでなく、親しみのニュアンスも込められている。
English: Also the expression 'Udosah' means 'great person' in the dialect of Kagoshima.
Japanese: また「うどさぁ」と言う表現もあるが、これは鹿児島弁で「偉大なる人」と言う意味である。
English: Indeed, one can imagine the look he must have had on his face when he came home from a long trip, crawled to get on the En (governor general of Kakibe) and said "ahhh".
Japanese: 少し長道をして帰られて、掾（えん）などに上るときは、パァ々々云つて這（は）つて上られる態が、今でも見える様ぢや。
English: He was very fat, and had the ungainly look that people loudly laugh at because no clothes fit well onto his person.'
Japanese: 斯んなに肥つて居られるで、着物を着ても、身幅が合わんので、能く無恰好な奴を出すので大笑ぢやつた。」
English: When he gazed at people with his big, dark glaring eyes, even a brave and strong man like Kirino held his tongue and did not say anything.
Japanese: その眼光と黒目がちの巨目でジロッと見られると、桐野のような剛の者でも舌が張り付いて物も言えなかったという。
English: He also had a menacing look, and people would put their hands down on the tatami mat and avoid his eyes, at least, that is the story was passed down from generation to generation by Kikujiro SAIGO, who was a child born out of wedlock.
Japanese: そのうえ、異様な威厳があって、参議でも両手を畳について話し、目を見ながら話をする者がなかったと、長庶子の西郷菊次郎が語り残している。
English: Describing the most characteristic big eyes in Satsuma dialect was 'Udome', and changed to 'Udomedon', then finally it turned in corrupt form 'U-ton'.
Japanese: その最も特徴的な巨目を薩摩弁で呼んだのが「うどめ」であり、「うどめどん」が訛ったのが「うーとん」であろう。
English: Oki-no-erabujima island was a solitary island in the distant ocean, so when the island suffered a natural disaster such as a typhoon or drought they had to recover without assistance.
Japanese: 沖永良部島は台風・日照りなど自然災害が多いところであったが絶海の孤島だったので、災害が起きたときは自力で立ち直る以外に方法がなかった。
English: Saigo who had known it, wrote a 'prospectus of Shaso storage' to his brother-in-law Masateru TUSHIMOCHI, who was a Magiri-yokome (similar to officer for province).
Japanese: そのことを知った西郷は「社倉趣意書」を書いて義兄弟になっていた間切横目（巡査のような役）の土持政照に与えた。
English: The prospectus of Shaso storage was started through recommendations of Chu His, it recommended storing grain or gold for famine and so on for mutually relief, and in the Edo period, Ansai YAMAZAKI tried to propagate this system, and it was introduced widely in farming villages.
Japanese: 社倉はもともと朱熹の建議で始められたもので、飢饉などに備えて村民が穀物や金などを備蓄し、相互共済するもので、江戸時代には山崎闇斎がこの制度の普及に努めて農村で広く行われていた。
English: Saigo had learnt Neo-Confucianism since he was young, and also he was a Korikata (tax officer), so he was familiar with the system from holding that job.
Japanese: 若い頃から朱子学を学び、また郡方であった西郷は職務からして、この制度に詳しかったのであろう。
English: Saigo's 'prospectus of shaso storage' was put into practice after Tsuchimochi became a high ranked officer on Oki-no-erabu-jima island in 1870, and Oki-no-erabu shaso Storage was built.
Japanese: この西郷の「社倉趣意書」は土持が与人となった後の明治3年（1870年）に実行にうつされ、沖永良部社倉が作られた。
English: Sasho Storage remained in use until it was finally dissolved in 1899, but a surplus of twenty thousand yen was stored there in the Middle Meiji Period.
Japanese: この社倉は明治32年（1899年）に解散するまで続けられたが、明治中期には20,000円もの余剰金が出るほどになったという。
English: It helped many people in the island during those days, for example by giving poor people money to save them when they suffer a famine, and also by supporting poor people, establishing a the hospital, and supporting education.
Japanese: この間、飢饉時の救恤（きゅうじゅつ）の外に、貧窮者の援助、病院の建設、学資の援助など、島内の多くの人々の役にたった。
English: When it was dissolved, the surplus was divided to into halves for Wadomari-mura and China-mura, and the funds became theirs except for expenses of constructing a monument for Saigo, the monument of well-known morality of Tsuchimochi, and part went towards expenses for 'Nanshu-bunko storage'.
Japanese: 解散時には西郷の記念碑と土持の彰徳碑、及び「南洲文庫」の費用に一部を充てた外は和泊村と知名村で2分し、両村の基金となった。
English: Fishing with a throwing net was one of the ways to support samurai in the lower grade's life in Satsuma, so had done that since he was young boy.
Japanese: 自ら投げ網で魚をとるのは薩摩の下級武士の生活を支える手段の一つであるので、少年時代からやっていた。
English: Running around the mountain hunting was a treatment for his obesity, so it was his most preferred hobby in his later years.
Japanese: 狩猟で山野を駆けめぐるのは肥満の治療にもなるので晩年まで最も好んだ趣味でもあった。
English: When he was living in Tokyo, he bred several dogs in his house, so his house went to ruin.
Japanese: 東京に住んでいた時分は自宅に犬を数十頭飼育し、家の中は荒れ放題だったという。
English: Although he is often evaluated as a person who praticed love of people and revering heaven, he is also evaluate as a Machiavellist.
Japanese: 敬天愛人の体現者としての評価とは別に冷酷なマキャベリストしての評価も存在する。
English: He had done many things against morality, like, made the repined masterless samurai use violence in Edo City against the shogunate, and punished the Sekihotai Army, who contributed to government forces, as a Nise Kangun (fake government force).
Japanese: 幕府を挑発するために不逞浪士に江戸市中で乱暴狼藉を行わせたり、官軍のために貢献した赤報隊を偽官軍として処断するなど道義に反する行いも数々している。
English: But he did not take action to promote his own defense or promotion, and later this became a source of Saigo's high personal evaluation.
Japanese: だが、己の保身や栄達のために策を講じたことはないとされ、このことが後の西郷の高い人格的評価の源泉となっている。
English: But, as a result this thing was an ironical indirect cause that forced Saigo into retired from politics.
Japanese: だが皮肉なことにこのことが結果的に西郷を政治的な隠遁に追い込む遠因となった。
English: There are many portraits of leaders in the restoration, such as Okubo and others, but Saigo told Emperor Meiji not to have portraits made of him.
Japanese: 大久保ら維新の立役者の絵が多数残っている中、西郷は自分の写真が無いと明治天皇に明言している。
English: After his death, many portraits were drawn of Saigo's face, a picture that became foundational (by Edoardo Chiossone) was a composition of around eyes from his brother, Judo, and also borrowed features from his cousin, Iwao OYAMA, and it is possible that Chiossone never met Saigo so the thin face pictured is in fact different from his face.
Japanese: 死後に西郷の顔だと言われる肖像画が多数描かれているが、基となった1枚の絵（エドアルド・キヨッソーネ作）は、弟・従道の目元に、がっしりしていた従弟・大山巌の顔つきを合成したものであり、キヨッソーネは西郷との面識が一切無かったことから、実際の彼の顔とは異なり細い顔であるという可能性もある。
English: There were many people who remember Saigo's face alive at that time, and no objections were made that the face was especially unlike his, so it is thought that Chiossone's portfolio was basically accurate.
Japanese: 西郷の顔を記憶している人間が当時は多数生きており、特に似ていないとの異論も出ていないので基本的にはキヨッソーネの肖像画は似ているものと思われる。
English: However, as recent research shows, in fact Saigo's ear wasn't the ears with big earlobes which earlobe is hanging down, his ears were the hiramimi (normal) ear.
Japanese: ただし、実際の西郷の耳は耳たぶが垂れたいわゆる福耳ではなく、平耳であったことが近年の研究で明らかにされている。
English: Some portraits that were drawn after in fact meeting Saigo were drawn with Hiramimi ears.
Japanese: 実際の西郷にあって描かれた肖像画のいくつかは、明らかに平耳で描かれている。
English: It is said to be a picture of Saigo and Emperor Meiji in a picture with Ryoma SAKAMOTO and Kogoro KATSURA (taken by Guido Herman Fridolin Verbeek a student of Chienkan school, in the domain of Saga) existed, but it is very doubtful.
Japanese: 寺田屋事件が起こった旅籠寺田屋にて西郷や明治天皇が坂本龍馬や桂小五郎らと写っていると称されている写真（フルベッキが佐賀藩致遠館の学生たちと撮影した写真）があるが、甚だ疑わしい。
English: The picture was supposedly taken by Guido Herman Fridolin Verbeek in 1866 or 1867, but the notion that Saigo and others who had made achievements serving the country in the Meiji Restoration got together around that time is historically impossible, and Saigo himself was already obese by this point, but in the picture his cheek bones show and he had a normal sized body, so there are many problems with it; moreover, the picture was distorted by Taneomi SOEJIMA and Guido Herman Fridolin Verbeek, so it is likely to be nothing more than unnamed men of the warrior class in Saga, instead those who had achievements serving their country.
Japanese: グイド・フルベッキの写真は撮影されたのが慶応2、3年と特定されているが（明治初年の説もある）、比定された西郷ら明治維新の元勲がこの時期に一堂に会したことは史料的にも有り得ぬし、西郷本人に限っても、既に肥満体になっていたのに、頬骨が出、普通の身躯をしているなど疑問点だらけで、副島種臣とフルベッキ、さらに無名の佐賀士族の若者たちを写した写真を元勲たちの写真とこじつけたにすぎない。
English: The statue, which based on a portfolio made by Koun TAKAMURA (the dog next to him was sculpted by Teiko GOTO), was built in Ueno Onshi Koen park which is located in Ueno which is in the Taito Ward of the Tokyo Metropolitan area.
Japanese: 肖像画を基に東京都台東区上野の上野恩賜公園に高村光雲作（傍らの犬は後藤貞行作）の銅像が建設された。
English: Aisuke KABAYAMA who is son of Sukenori KABAYMA was helping and made effort for his father who was the chairman of construction of statue, he wrote about Koun that he had difficulty expressing Saigo's characteristic lips (lips was very attractive and week of love were staying together) until the ending although the face of statue was made very good.
Japanese: 銅像の建設委員長をしていた樺山資紀を助けて奔走していた子息の樺山愛輔は、銅像の顔は極めてよくできているが、光雲は西郷の特徴ある唇（何とも言えない魅力と情愛に弱いところが同居している唇）を最後まで表現しきれないことに苦しんだと書いている。
English: A wife of Saigo's, Itoko, who was invited to the opening, was surprised and said 'my husband didn't look like that' (a theory that claiming that the statues did not in fact look alike stems from this statement), and also she said 'he didn't walk around in a yukata' in a strong dialect of Satsu-gu (the dialect of Satsuma and Osumi Province) and she was censured by the people around her.
Japanese: 公開の際に招かれた西郷夫人糸子は「宿んし（うちの主人）はこげんなお人じゃなかったこてえ（あら、こんな人ではなかったですよ）」と腰を抜かし（この発言を銅像の顔が本人に似てない事と解釈する説もある）、また「浴衣姿で散歩なんてしなかった」といった意の言葉（薩隅方言）を漏らし周囲の人に窘められたという。
English: Aisuke KABAYAMA had an different than that of Itoko 'his appearance was similar to this, but the minute attractiveness and his characteristic lips, which were a one of a kind attractive feature of his, as well as his eyes, face, and shoulder line, were barely expressed...'
Japanese: この糸子の言をも樺山愛輔は「大体の風貌はあの通りとしても、個性的な魅力のある唇のもつニュアンスとでもいうか、そうした二つとない魅力的なものを現はすことは不可能であったわけだ、眼とか顔とか肩のもつ線とかは何とか表現することは出来たらうが、…」と解釈している。
English: The statue of Saigo in Ueno is different from the figure that Itoko criticized (the one in which he was walking around with a dress), rather, it is an image of him hunting rabbit.
Japanese: 上野の西郷像は糸子が批評しているような散歩している姿ではなく、兎狩りをしている姿である。
English: This figure, by Iwao OYAMA, might be guessed to be a statue inspired by only the shirt of Giuseppe Garibaldi, and he suggested that took away Saigo's serious side, showed his true nature without decoration as he went to hunt rabbit in the mountains.
Japanese: この姿は大山巌がジュゼッペ・ガリバルディのシャツだけの銅像から思いつき、西郷の真面目は一切の名利を捨てて山に入って兎狩りをした飾りの無い本来の姿にこそあるとして発案した。
English: The dog with him was a male Satsuma-ken dog called 'Tsun', but when the statue was built she had died, so it was erected modelling after a male dog of Kagenori NIRE, chusho of the navy, Empire of Japan.
Japanese: 連れているのはお気に入りの薩摩犬であった雌犬の「ツン」であるが、銅像作成時は死んでいたため、大日本帝国海軍中将・仁礼景範の雄犬をモデルにして雄犬として作成された。
English: On the other hand, the statue, which was erected at Shiroyama koen Park in Kagoshima City by native sculptor Terusaku ANDO, depicted him in his military uniform (full general).
Japanese: 一方、鹿児島市の城山公園に立つ、郷土の彫刻家安藤照作による銅像は軍装（陸軍大将）である。
English: The book "SAIGO Takamori," which was simply an organized biography of Takamori SAIGO that was distributed to elementary students in Kagoshima Prefecture free in 1970's, explained that he was not lacking manners, that is, he was not a person who would have gone out to meet people without dressing properly, according to his wife's word.
Japanese: 昭和50年代に鹿児島県下で小学生に無料配布されていた西郷隆盛の伝記を簡単にまとめた読本『西郷隆盛』で未亡人の言葉は、亡夫は多くの人間の前に正装ではなく普段着で出るような礼儀をわきまえない人間ではないのにという文脈で解説されている。
English: It's difficult to imagine it at present, but in a time when statues of the deceased were built to honor them (which is a Western custom) and many of statues were dressed up and majestic, the statue of Saigo was very ordinary, as his achievement was to serve country in the Meiji Restoration.
Japanese: 今日では想像しにくいが、銅像を造って故人を顕彰するという西洋伝来の新しい文化がようやく定着した時期であり、その多くが正装したり威厳に満ちたものであったのに対し、西郷の銅像は明治維新の元勲のものとしては、あまりに庶民的に過ぎるものである。
English: At the dedication of a bronze statue of his, which was at the place of restoration of Saigo's honor (who was treated as an enemy of the state), there was surprise and disappointment which reflected people's feelings about the dress of the bronze statues, which was very different from people's expectation.
Japanese: 一時は朝敵とされた西郷の名誉回復の場でもあった銅像除幕で、予想とあまりにかけ離れた服装の銅像に対する驚きと落胆の気持ちの反映であった。
English: Originally it was planned to build Saigo's statue inside the Imperial Palace, but they could not ignore all the opposing opinions arising from his having been a Choteki (for having turned on the Imperial Court) in the Seinan War.
Japanese: 本来は皇居内に立てる案もあった西郷像は、西南戦争で朝敵となったことで反対する意見も根強かったという経緯も無視できない。
English: In the opinion of Iwao OYAMA above, at a time when there were many politicians who opposed Saigo's opinions, it can be imagined that, based on his rank in the Meiji Government it was not necessary to make put him in full dress according to the circumstances surrounding the situation.
Japanese: 上記大山巖の言い分も、まだ西郷に対する反感を持つ政治家も多かった時代、明治政府の官位による正装をさせるわけにはいかなかった事情が背景にあったと考えられる。
English: The times changed, and the statue that was erected at Shiroyama Park in Kagoshima Prefecture portrays him standing at attention in the full dress of a full general, which is the statue that his wife was originally expected to see from the point of view of the restoration of Saigo's Honor.
Japanese: 時代が下って鹿児島県の城山公園に建てられた銅像が、陸軍大将の正装で直立不動の姿勢であるのは、西郷の名誉回復という観点からすれば、未亡人が本来期待した銅像の姿に近いといえよう。
English: Rumor had it that Saigo escaped to China and the continent and still alive after Seinan War was spread.
Japanese: 西南戦争後も西郷は中国大陸に逃れて生存しているという風聞が広まっていた。
English: There was also a rumor that Nicholai II, in the Period of the Crown Prince of Russia, came to Japan in 1891 and stopped by Kagoshima, and returned to his country with Saigo.
Japanese: 1891年にロシア皇太子時代のニコライ2世が来日し、鹿児島へも立ち寄ると、西郷が皇太子と共に帰国するという風説もあった。
English: Sanzo TSUDA, who went to the front with the army as a noncommissioned officer, and caused the Incident of Otsu, believed that he had in fact committed an atrocious crime.
Japanese: 西南戦争に下士官として従軍し、大津事件を起こした津田三蔵は、これを真に受け凶行に及んだといわれている。
English: Takamori SAIGO, who was younger, received a secret order to conduct reconnaissance in Taiwan from Saiakira SHIMAZU, the lord of domain of Satsuma, so he landed in a small fishing village, Nampo-o, So-chin, Giran-ken (Nan Fang Ao, Suao Township, Yilan County) from North of Taiwan, Keelung, and he lived there pretending to be Ryukyuan.
Japanese: 1851年（嘉永4年）、薩摩藩主島津斉彬の台湾偵察の密命を受け、若き日の西郷隆盛は、台湾北部基隆から小さな漁村であった宜蘭県蘇澳鎮南方澳に密かに上陸、そこで琉球人を装って暮らした。
English: Saigo returned to Kagoshima a half year later, but a girl who was taking care of him and who had been on intimate terms with him in Nampo-o delivered a boy before long.
Japanese: およそ半年で西郷は鹿児島に帰るが、南方澳で西郷の世話をして懇ろの仲になっていた娘が程なく男児を出産した。
English: There was one time, when he was little, that he was walking with a water bottle (another theory has it that it was a soybean curd) and a mischevious boy surprised him from a hiding place, and Saigo, terrified and dropped the water bottle on the ground, but then thereafter he picked up the water bottle as if nothing had happened.
Japanese: 幼少期、近所に使いで水瓶（豆腐と言う説もある）を持って歩いている時に、物陰に隠れていた悪童に驚かされた時、西郷は水瓶を地面に置いた上で、心底、驚いた表現をして、その後何事も無かったかのように水瓶を運んで行った。
English: He showed a hedonistic side in his earlier days, and when he was middle aged, he had lovers other than his wife, but he was continent in his latter years.
Japanese: 青年、壮年期においては妻のほか愛人を囲うなど享楽的な側面も見せたが、晩年は禁欲的な態度に徹した。
English: Takamori SAIGO was a supporter of a military system having a warrior class or conscription, and even government officials were divided on this issue, some adopted the former opinion, like Tateki TANI and Koyata TORIO, and others like Tosuke HIRATA had the latter opinion.
Japanese: 西郷隆盛が士族兵制論者か徴兵制支持者なのか、当時の政府関係者ですら意見が分かれており、谷干城や鳥尾小弥太は前者を、平田東助は後者であったとする見解を採っている。
English: As a supporter of the military system of a warrior class, it is proper that, due to the situation involving the introduction of the Goshimpei (army to form a convoy to the Emperor) Saigo continued Yamagata's plan of the conscription system after Aritomo YAMAGATA lost his position, so it is of concern that Saigo himself trusted Yamagata, who formed the Goshimpei (army to convoy the Emperor) and Konoe, then accepted the effects of the Conscription Ordinance.
Japanese: 御親兵導入の経緯などからすれば、士族兵制論者と見るのが妥当であるが、山縣有朋の失脚後も西郷は山縣の徴兵制構想をそのまま継続させたことから、親兵・近衛を通じて形成された山縣に対する西郷の個人的信頼から徴兵令実施を受け入れたと考えられている。
English: Incidentally, when introducing the abolition of clans and establishment of prefectures, the person who finally agreed with Saigo was Yamagata.
Japanese: ちなみに廃藩置県導入の際に西郷を最終的に同意させたのも山縣であった。