This figure, by Iwao OYAMA, might be guessed to be a statue inspired by only the shirt of Giuseppe Garibaldi, and he suggested that took away Saigo's serious side, showed his true nature without decoration as he went to hunt rabbit in the mountains.
この姿は大山巌がジュゼッペ・ガリバルディのシャツだけの銅像から思いつき、西郷の真面目は一切の名利を捨てて山に入って兎狩りをした飾りの無い本来の姿にこそあるとして発案した。