| In 1879 he criticised the Hokkaido Development Commissioner, and after resigning from his post, spent the remainder of his life as a writer, travelling the country up to the year before he died. |
1870年に開拓使を批判して職を辞してからは余生を著述に過ごしたが、死の前年まで全国歴遊はやめなかったという。 |