Aisuke KABAYAMA who is son of Sukenori KABAYMA was helping and made effort for his father who was the chairman of construction of statue, he wrote about Koun that he had difficulty expressing Saigo's characteristic lips (lips was very attractive and week of love were staying together) until the ending although the face of statue was made very good.
銅像の建設委員長をしていた樺山資紀を助けて奔走していた子息の樺山愛輔は、銅像の顔は極めてよくできているが、光雲は西郷の特徴ある唇（何とも言えない魅力と情愛に弱いところが同居している唇）を最後まで表現しきれないことに苦しんだと書いている。