The heroic story of how Samurai Warlord Saigo Takamori rose up against the changing of the times. But actually, it wasn't really about that at all.

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Andrew Gordon. A History of Modern Japan

William Beasley. The Meiji Restoration

James Buck. The Satsuma Rebellion of 1877

Romulus Hillsborough. Samurai Revolution: The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shogun's Last Samurai.

Noel Perrin. Giving Up The Gun: Japan's Reversion To The Sword.

https://www.historynet.com/satsuma-rebellion-satsuma-clan-samurai-against-the-imperial-japanese-army/