Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Plot: In 1878, one of the Three Great Nobles of the Restoration and statesman Ōkubo Toshimichi, had his carriage surrounded by disgruntled samurai from the former Kaga Domain led by Shimada Ichirō, a samurai who remained loyal to Saigo Takamori. Okubo was from Satsuma, the western province that played an important part in toppling the Tokugawa Shogunate and restoring the Emperor to power. In 1877, a rebellion broke out were a group of former samurais under the command of Takamori revolt against the Meiji government. This is known as the Satsuma Rebellion. Okubo sided with the government and when Saigo died in the final battle, many people in Satsuma considered Okubo a traitor and marked him for death. His servant Taro Nakamura was also violently stabbed to death by two samurais, Otogiku Sugimoto and Chō Tsurahide.