Saijiro TAKEUCHI, as a boy, must have seen it when he was looking down from a tree at the examination of corpses stripped of clothes in the ruins of Komyo-ji Temple ("Memories Before and After the Seinan War" by Saijiro TAKEUCHI).
光明寺跡で裸にされての検屍を樹上から見物していた竹内少年（竹内才次郎『西南役前後の思出の記』）らはこれを目撃したであろう。