the postmortem certificate of kirino in " the side history of the seinan war " (seinaneki sokumenki ) compiled by the-60-years-since-seinan-war society (1939 ) recorded as ' clothing: striped pongee (tsumugi jima ) outerwear and silk crepe undershirts (chirimen juban ); wounds: a bullet wound on muscle and bone of the inside of the left thigh , a sword wound of the right tibia , an old cut of the middle finder on the left hand , a piercing bullet wound from the lower bowel to the waist , a piercing bullet from the forehead to the temple , a sword wound from the left forehead to the crown , an wound on the tip of the middle finger of the left hand and scrotum hypertrophy , which suggested that kirino had been suffering from filarial infection as well as saigo . なお、西南戦争60年会編『西南役側面史』（1939）に記載する桐野の屍体検査書に「衣服 績縞上着縮緬襦袢。創所 左大腿内面筋骨銃創、右脛骨刀創、左中指旧切痕、下腹部より腰部貫通銃創、前頭より顳顬部貫通銃創、左前頭より傾頂部に刀創、左中指端傷、陰嚢肥腫」とあるので、桐野は西郷と同じくフィラリアを病んでいたと考えられる。
