RYŌMA!: The Life of Sakamoto Ryoma: Japanese Swordsman and Visionary Volume II

by Ryōtarō Shiba

“Itagaki may perish, but freedom will never die.” These words of his, spoken when he was stabbed at the foot of Mt. Kinka in Gifu Prefecture during a lecture tour in 1882, have become legend. He died in 1919 at the age of eighty-three.