Parti à Kyoto, Jin rencontre l'un des principaux acteurs de la restauration : Takamori Sa͏ïgo. C'est au coeur d'une résidence où souffle à son encontre la terrible agressivité du clan Satsuma que Jin entame le traitement de l'appendicite de Sa͏ïgo.
Motoka Murakami (村上 もとか Murakami Motoka?, born June 3, 1951 in Setagaya, Tokyo) is a Japanese manga artist who writes primarily shōnen manga. He won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Gakuto Retsuden in 1982 and the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, for shōnen for Musashi no Ken in 1984 and for general manga in 1996 for Ron, serialized in Big Comic Original from 1991 to 2006.[1][2] In 1998, he received an Excellence Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Ron.