Do not buy fertile fields for your children and grandchildren.
人を相手にせず、天を相手にせよ。天を相手にして己を尽くし、人を咎めず。
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The charismatic giant who led Japan's Meiji Restoration through force of personality and moral authority
The charismatic giant who led Japan's Meiji Restoration through force of personality and moral authority (1828-1877). Saigo Takamori toppled the shogunate, built the new army, then rebelled against the very government he created — dying as the 'last samurai' in a final stand for a vanishing world.
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