“It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.”

— Yoshida Shoin

Vol. VI.
Yoshida Shoin Zenshu

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Japanese politician 1830–1859

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