Saigō Takamori later rose up against the new government and died in defeat.
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In Japanese he is 西郷隆盛 (Saigō Takamori); Chinese reads the characters with Mandarin sounds.
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毛泽东's 1910 farewell poem to his father reworks a quatrain long credited to 西乡隆盛: its first line, 男儿立志出乡关 "a man sets his will and leaves his home", became 孩儿立志出乡关. The quatrain is now usually traced to the Japanese monk Gesshō.
