The story of the first half of the war, the first in a series of stories, tells of the deaths of a Singuo soldier in the Western Korean War, who was temporarily buried in the Shōfu temple in the capital city of Kumbang.
西南戦争で戦死した西郷小兵衛が熊本市本山の香福寺で仮埋葬されていた事が分かる『熊本県政資料』の明治１１年の箇所