This is one of the books in the Contemporary Classics series, which translates classic books into modern language to help readers acquire the ability to resolve issues on their own that cannot be solved with modern how-to books.

This book contains a number of quotes by Takamori Saigo, who is still very popular and a well-known hero of the Meiji Restoration in the 1800s.

This legacy book was compiled by Takamori Saigo’s enemies who admired and respected his personality, and created this book to study his noble spirit and broad-mindedness.