The Reality of the Boshin War Was Tragic: People's Homes Became Battlefields, Food Was Stolen, and They Were Killed.

Saigo Takamori is seen as a generous, peaceful man who does not get hung up on trivial matters. However, that is merely the image of the peaceful "Saigo-san (Bronze Statue) in Ueno." In actual history, it was Saigo himself who pushed for the overthrow of the shogunate by force, and he was quite a warlike person. Iwakura Tomomi and even the Satsuma clan were looking for a way to overthrow the shogunate without a civil war, but it was none other t…