This Zenpei OGASAWARA was born in 1881, left Iwate Prefecture, his home town, when he was sixteen years old, had been under the generous patronage of General Nogi, continually changed the place in Sendai, Taiwan, Tokyo, and Hokkaido, served in the Japanese-Russo War, and died in 1908 at the age of twenty-eight.
この小笠原善平とは、明治14年生まれ、16歳で郷里岩手県を出奔し、乃木将軍の厚い庇護を受け、仙台・台湾・東京・北海道、日露戦役に出征するなど流転の末、明治41年28歳で死んだ。