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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 ...
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 .
Satsuma Rebellion: An Episode of Modern Japanese History. University Publications of America. ISBN 0-89093-259-X. Ravina, Mark (2004). The Last Samurai : The Life and Battles of Saigō Takamori. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-08970-2.
In the end, Saigō Takamori's forces would number 15,000, and the Imperial Japanese Army, led by Arisugawa Taruhito and Yamagata Aritomo, [2] numbered 90,000. The first days of the battle were marked by heavy rain, which hampered the rebel's ability to resupply. [ 1 ]
The Three Great Nobles were Ōkubo Toshimichi of the Satsuma Domain (Satsuma-han), Saigō Takamori of the Satsuma Domain (Satsuma-han), and Kido Takayoshi (also known as Katsura Kogorō) of the Chōshū Domain (Chōshū-han). All three were samurai of the Satchō Alliance, and died within a short period of time between 1877 (Meiji 10) and 1878 ...
Saigō Takamori, the last great warrior of the Satsuma, was one of the zealous supporters of the imperial restoration, but ended up leading the rebellion against the imperial government in 1877 that culminated with the destruction of the Satsuma clan and the end of the vestiges of feudal Japan's Daimyos.
The film's plot was inspired by the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, led by Saigō Takamori, and the Westernization of Japan by foreign powers. [ a ] Cruise portrays Nathan Algren, an American captain of the 7th Cavalry Regiment , whose personal and emotional conflicts bring him into contact with samurai warriors in the wake of the Meiji Restoration in ...