【西南戦争】元新選組の怪物警官・藤田五郎（斎藤一）薩摩自顕流と対峙した抜刀撃剣隊の戦慄！《大分豊後口戦線》#斎藤一 #西南戦争 #歴史

Before he became Fujita Gorō, he was known as Saitō Hajime—one of the most feared swordsmen of the Shinsengumi. A survivor of the fallen samurai era, he carried his blade into one final battlefield: the Satsuma Rebellion, Japan’s last civil war. ----------------- After the fall of the samurai era, Saitō Hajime—the legendary swordsman of the Shinsengumi—changed his name and became Fujita Gorō, a police officer in the new Meiji government. During the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877, he returned to the battlefield one final time, fighting alongside former samurai from Aizu and northern Japan. This is the story of the forgotten warriors who carried the spirit of the samurai into the final days of Japan’s civil wars.