However, he was asked to educate three kids on the island, also Fujinaga, Magiri-yokome's (officer of the province) was kind to him, and having a wife, he became accustomed to life on the island, and on November 2, 1860, Kikujiro SAIGO was born.
しかし、島の子供3人の教育を依頼され、間切横目藤長から親切を受け、島妻を娶るにつれ、徐々に島での生活になじみ、万延元年（1860年）11月2日には西郷菊次郎が誕生した。