Introduction; Chapter 1 Saig?’s Childhood in Satsuma, 1827–59; Chapter 2 Exile and Intellectual Growth, 1859–64; Chapter 3 The Rise to Leadership, 1864–65; Chapter 4 The Destruction of the Tokugawa Regime, 1865–8; Chapter 5 Reform and Reaction in Kagoshima, 1868–71; Chapter 6 Hard Times and Trouble in Tokyo, 1871–73; Chapter 7 Collision Course in Kagoshima, 1873–77;
