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<p>Why was a kind-hearted gardener implicated in the High Treason Incident? </p> <p>In 1911 (Meiji 44), Kotoku Shusui, Kanno Suga, Niimura Tadao, Miyashita Taikichi and others were arrested for plotting to assassinate the Emperor in the so-called High Treason Incident. Furukawa Riksaku, a gardener who had become devoted to socialism after his family fell on hard times and he himself had been discriminated against for his short stature, was arrested and sentenced to death despite not being the mastermind behind the incident and not having been given any important role. <br /> "I was foolish enough to think that judges who have eyes but are knotty, ears but are wooden, and bloody like beasts, who write what is beneficial to the defendant as pink even when it is red, who call the truth an excuse when it is stated, who write what is unfavorable to the defendant as red even when it is pink, and who consider lies to be the truth, judges who receive a monthly salary from the government, are fair, impartial, and upright." <br /> This is a masterpiece of nonfiction that explores the character of Furukawa Rikkusaku, a man from the same hometown as the author, by visiting places associated with him, including his hometown, Kobe, and Tokyo, and by interviewing the prison guard in charge of Kotoku Shusui and Rikkusaku's family. </p>The screen will switch, so please wait a moment. *Please purchase from the Rakuten Kobo product page. *If the switch does not work, please click here. *You cannot order from this page.