There are many novels and TV dramas about the Satsuma-Choshu alliance, the Satsuma-Tosa pact, and the return of political power to the Emperor by the Tokugawa Shogunate with an emphasis on Ryoma SAKAMOTO; however, there is debate as to who the central person in these events was.
薩長連合、薩土密約、大政奉還等は、坂本龍馬が中心に描かれたテレビドラマや小説が多いが、その発想や行動において真の立役者は本当はどちらかであったかは議論が分かれるところである。