The book "SAIGO Takamori," which was simply an organized biography of Takamori SAIGO that was distributed to elementary students in Kagoshima Prefecture free in 1970's, explained that he was not lacking manners, that is, he was not a person who would have gone out to meet people without dressing properly, according to his wife's word.
昭和50年代に鹿児島県下で小学生に無料配布されていた西郷隆盛の伝記を簡単にまとめた読本『西郷隆盛』で未亡人の言葉は、亡夫は多くの人間の前に正装ではなく普段着で出るような礼儀をわきまえない人間ではないのにという文脈で解説されている。