Questions and answers of Kirino about inside details of the political upheaval of the sixth year of Meiji and the Taiwan expedition was recorded by Kuro ISHIKAWA and Shunjiro NAKAMURA, both the samurai class of Ishikawa Prefecture, who visited Kirino after the Taiwan expedition, in the column of 'Toin Sentan' (the conversation with Mr. Kirino) in the newspaper "Nippon" and "The Records of Seinan War," vol. 1.
同年の台湾出兵ののち石川県士族石川九郎・中村俊次郎が桐野を訪ね、明治六年政変および台湾出兵の内情について質問したときの応答「桐陰仙譚」が新聞『日本』及び『西南記伝』上巻に残っている。