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The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori

ISBN: 978-0-471-08970-4
Hardcover
288 pages
November 2003
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NOTE TO THE READER.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

1. “POWERFULLY SENTIMENTAL”
Saigo’s Early Years in Satsuma.

2. “A MAN OF EXCEPTIONAL FIDELITY”
Saigo and National Politics.

3. “BONES IN THE EARTH”
Exile and Ignominy.

4. “ TO SHOULDER THE BURDENS OF THE REALM”
The Destruction of the Shogunate.

5. “ TO TEAR ASUNDER THE CLOUDS”
Saigo and the Meiji State.

6. “THE BURDEN OF DEATH IS LIGHT”
Saigo and the War of the Southwest.

NOTES.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

SOURCES.

INDEX.

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