An imperial loyalist at the end of the Edo era, was he?There's an interesting episode involving this bronze statue.The statue first constructed looked nothing like the man himself.The current statue is the second one, remade with huge unpopularity.All stories seem to go like that...here in Kōchi...The statue of Takechi Hanpeita on the Yokonami Kuroshio Line...On top of that, the body parts were all wrong. It was just a weird statue.
See also: Susaki City publications (1986)
