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- This is an old book "Saigo Ichidaiki" published in 1877.
- It is an illustrated reading book.
- Saigo Takamori was a politician and military officer from the end of the Edo period to the early Meiji period.
- He was a low-ranking samurai of the Satsuma clan, but he successfully carried out a coup d'état to restore the monarchy, overthrew the Edo Shogunate and brought about the Meiji Restoration.
- He also decisively implemented modernisation reforms as a councillor in the new Meiji government.
- However, he was defeated in a conflict over differences of opinion within the government.
- He raised his army but was defeated by government forces and committed suicide.