The last samurai
Subtitle: the life and battles of Saigo Takamori
By: Mark Ravina.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Saigō, Takamori, -- 1828-1877; Statesmen -- Japan -- Biography; Japan -- History -- Restoration, 1853-1870
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Powerfully sentimental", Saigo's early years in Satsuma; title: "A man of exceptional fidelity", Saigo and national politics; title: "Bones in the earth", exile and ignominy; title: "To shoulder the burdens of the realm", the destruction of the Shogunate; title: "To tear asunder the clouds", Saigo and the Meiji State; title: "The burden of death is light", the war of the southwest.