Saigō Takamori

Saigō Takamori is represented in the linked non-fiction through empire, conquest and resistance, political ambition and government, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In non-fiction, Saigō Takamori is discussed in John Man’s Samurai. In John Man’s Samurai, Samurai uses the life of Saigō Takamori to explain the destruction and reinvention of Japan’s warrior class.