Saigo

Just when I was about to tell no one in particular that I’d witnessed every kind of degenerate activity known to mankind unfold across my television screen, I received a copy of Osamu Fukutani’s bowel-churning opus The Last Supper aka Saigo no bansan.

The Last Supper (2005) 2010

Estimates of overgrazing worldwide are on the order of one third of all rangeland (Cunningham and Saigo [1]).

Overgrazing 2009

Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya) is an irreverent young baker who just wants to stay alive to see his newborn daughter.

Holiday Movie Guide 2007

This one, by Roy Saigo, president of St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, is in a major North Carolina newspaper. posted by Eric 8: 28 AM |

IsThatLegal? 2003

The wife of Saigo, the Minister of Education, called one day in an exquisite Japanese dress of dove-coloured silk crepe, with a pale pink under-dress of the same material, which showed a little at the neck and sleeves.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

Today, Saigo is a folk hero, a symbol of devotion to principle.

THE NEWS BLOG 2004

Known for his obstinate conservatism, Saigo supported the Emperor in the Meiji coup, but then led an 1877 revolt against the government in which his followers were defeated by imperial troops drawn from the peasantry and equipped with modern arms.

THE NEWS BLOG 2004

Saigo was the lord of Satsuma, the feudal domain that managed to run its own foreign policy even during the isolationist Tokugawa Shogunate (1603-1867), conquering the Ryukyus (Okinawa) in 1609 and exploiting its extensive trade network to build up its wealth and later modernize its own weaponry.

Hidden Christians, Last Samurai, and Gun Runners « Far Outliers 2003

Itami loved Nicholas, even though - perhaps partly because - he had killed Saigo, who had stalked Nicholas, murdering Nicholas's friends as he had come ever closer to killing Nicholas.

The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990

Instead of concentrating on reaching the state of mind/no mind that was the Void, the path to understanding, he had been intent upon besting Saigo again.

The White Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1990