Following Saburōsuke: Another Last Samurai, Episode 64, Text and Photos by Fujino Hiroaki

The installment includes the line, ‘Now do you understand why we asked Mr. Nakajima to run for office?’ It describes a steel Krupp gun made in Prussia (Germany), with a 16-inch caliber and a range of about 4,000 m, carried aboard the Kaiyomaru.