Bullet Holes from Seinan War

Scars from Japan's last civil war often overlooked.

Across the main road on the north eastern side from Tsurumaru Castle ruins is the historic site of Shigakukan. One needs to know a bit about Kagoshima’s hero, Takamori Saigou. Saigou is one of the mos...

Nothing to see

Original Text

The wall in question is located just a few steps from the city centre, it now borders a hospital, there are impacts of quite large diameters on a fifty meters, The most impressive was for...

Shiqi に countless の の traces

Original Text

　Proceed east from the Goromon gate, which is the entrance and exit of Tsurumaru Castle Ruins. A stone wall continues across the intersection. There were countless bullet marks on this stone wall during the Sennan War. It is said that this stone wall with bullet marks is a stone wall around a private school founded by Takamori Saigo. The shooting battle at that time has been transmitted live 々. 　

Shiqi に countless の traces

Original Text

　This time, I was traveling around Kyushu for about two weeks and saw descriptions about the Seinan War on several lands. I had a strong image of an event in Kagoshima, but I found it was a wider and larger event. The bullet marks made during the Satsuma War were left on the stone wall next to the ruins of Tsurumaru Castle. That's a huge number. They still tell us the fierce battle of the Satsuma War.

Most of の traces

Original Text

It is a trace of a bullet that remains on the stone wall surrounding the private school established by Takamori Saigo. It is a bullet attacked by a government army during the Seinan War. I don't know if it makes sense to put so much into the stone wall, but the raw 々 is transmitted.