The last samurai: the life and battles of Saigo Takamori

"Powerfully sentimental", Saigo's early years in Satsuma

"A man of exceptional fidelity", Saigo and national politics

"Bones in the earth", exile and ignominy

"To shoulder the burdens of the realm", the destruction of the Shogunate

"To tear asunder the clouds", Saigo and the Meiji State

"The burden of death is light", the war of the southwest.