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The Battle of Shiroyama (城山の戦い, Shiroyama no tatakai) took place on 24 September 1877, in Kagoshima, Japan. [3] It was the final battle of the Satsuma Rebellion, where the heavily outnumbered samurai under Saigō Takamori made their last stand against Imperial Japanese Army troops under the command of General Yamagata Aritomo and Admiral Kawamura Sumiyoshi.
Saigō Takamori (or Takanaga) (西鄕 隆盛 [隆永], January 23, 1828 – September 24, 1877) was a Japanese samurai and nobleman. He was one of the most influential samurai in Japanese history and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration .
Ryohei Suzuki as Saigō Takamori. Ao Watanabe as Kokichi (young Takamori) Keiko Matsuzaka as Saigō Masa, the mother of Takamori; Morio Kazama as Saigō Kichibei, the father of Takamori; Toshiyuki Nishida as Saigō Kikujirō, Takamori's son Yuki Imai as Teen Kikujirō; Kairi Jō as Child Kikujirō; Ai Hashimoto as Suga, the first wife of Takamori
Ōkubo Toshimichi as a young samurai. Ōkubo was born on 26 September 1830 in Kagoshima, Satsuma Province (present-day Kagoshima Prefecture) to Ōkubo Juemon (also known as Toshio and Shirō), [4] a low-ranking retainer of Shimazu Nariakira, the daimyō of the Satsuma Domain, later given a minor official position, and his wife Minayoshi Fuku, daughter of a physician. [5]
Saigo reappears and attacks them, infuriated to see an American has taken Kuribayashi's pistol. Saigo is subdued and taken to the beach to recover alongside wounded Marines. Awakening on a stretcher, he glimpses the setting sun and smiles. Returning to 2005, the archaeologists complete their digging and reveal the bag of letters that Saigo buried.
Yamagata in 1877 led the newly modernized Imperial Army against the Satsuma Rebellion led by his former comrade in revolution, Saigō Takamori of Satsuma. At the end of the war, when Saigo's severed head was brought to Yamagata, he ordered it washed, and held the head in his arms as he pronounced a meditation on the fallen hero.
After Saigō Takamori's resignation from government in 1873, he returned to his hometown of Kagoshima. In June 1874, Saigō organized the Shi-gakkō, private military schools for young samurai. There were three schools comprising the Shi-gakkō - the "Childhood School", the "Gunner School" (referring to infantry), and the "Artillery School". [2]
In English, the most common name for the war is the "Satsuma Rebellion". Mark Ravina, the author of The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori, argued that "Satsuma Rebellion" is not the best name for the war because the English name does not well represent the war and its Japanese name. Ravina said that the war's scope was much ...