(Taking into account that the interview took place around 1960 and that the Meiji Restoration was in 1868, the woman must have been quite old, but it means that people who actually met Soji OKITA were still alive.)
（取材が1960年前後とすると、明治維新が1868年なので、かなり高齢ではあるものの実際の沖田総司を目にした人々が生きていたことになる。）