Saigo thought of Shinsuke BEPPU and said 'Shin-don, Shin-don, enough, here is good' and while the commanders dropped to their knees and watched him, and with propriety he dropped on his knees facing the far east and prayed.
西郷は別府晋介を顧みて「晋どん、晋どん、もう、ここらでよか」と言い、将士が跪いて見守る中、襟を正し、跪座し遙かに東に向かって拝礼した。