Gekiga: The Life of Ryoma Sakamoto

A comic adaptation of Sakazaki Shiran's novel ``Kekketsu Senrikoma'' (published in 1889), which became the origin of Ryoma's current popularity. A youth portrait of the heroes of the Meiji Restoration, including Ryoma Sakamoto, Shintaro Nakaoka, Shinsaku Takasugi, and Takamori Saigo, who believed in the dawn of Japan and ran through the end of the Edo period! This is a book suitable for an introduction to the end of the Edo period, full of Ryoma's episodes and his manly spirit.