But the most valuable part of this book is the list of names for those officers and foot soldiers under Sendai domain command, killed and wounded during the fighting in support of the Mutsu-Dewa-Echigo Coalition. This is something that neither the book 'Sendai Boshin-shi' nor the book 'Sendaihan Boshin-shi' possesses, so we feel our inclusion of it is particularly valuable. These fallen and wounded men, who served so loyally, ought to be esteemed. Their deaths should be pitied. Thus, though it was sixty long years ago, we naturally cannot forget their names.
From the preface of Boshin Shimatsu, an account of Sendai domain’s actions in the Boshin War (with reproduced primary documents), written by a group of former Date vassals in the early 20th century. #Bakumatsu
