However, the whereabouts of NAKAJIMA, who said that he would neither surrender nor die in fights, are not known even now ('Kagoshima Rojoki' (A record of staying-for-battles in a castle in Kagoshima) records a tale of a witness of the sight of NAKAJIMA being killed in a fight in Iwasakidani. ただ降伏も戦死もしないと口にしていた中島だけは今以て行方が知れない(「鹿児島籠城記」には岩崎谷で戦死したという目撃談が残っている。 |