Shonan NewsFollowing Saburōsuke: The Other Last Samurai, Episode 62, text and photos by Hiroaki Fujino
三郎助を追う 〜もうひとりのラストサムライ〜 第62回 文・写真 藤野浩章
The piece opens with a waka-style verse: ‘四十路あまり 六とせ過ぎにし空蝉（うつせみ）の からの衣の やつれ捨てたり.’ It describes Saburōsuke as the shogunate’s foremost engineer and a noted military figure, and then begins to discuss his other side, referred to with the term ‘mokkei’ (wooden cock).