On February 1, his younger brother Kohei visited Saigo, who was in Konejime as an envoy from the executive of Shigakko, and he heard that Tota TANIGUCHI and Naoo NAKAHARA returned to stab Saigo, and talked about the attack on the gunpowder magazine made by the students of Shigakko.
2月1日、小根占にいた西郷のもとに四弟小兵衞が私学校幹部らの使者として来て、谷口登太が中原尚雄から西郷刺殺のために帰県したと聞き込んだこと、私学校生徒による火薬庫襲撃がおきたことなどを話した。