Especially Satcho, having started domain duty reform far earlier than the other domains, were quick to deal with the uncertainties of the changing times such as the chaotic situation caused by the opening Japan to the world by the Unequal Treaty and the ending of the Edo period, so they threw up many major figures in the overthrow of the Shogunate including martyrs.
特に薩長は全国の他の諸藩よりも圧倒的に藩政改革が早く、不平等条約による開国という状況や幕末という時代変化にいち早く対応していたため、殉国者含め、倒幕の立役者となる人材を多く輩出していた。