On the Left: Kanno Suga (ca. 1908).

Sievers describes Kanno as "a journalist and avowed anarchist who was hanged in 1911 for plotting the assassination of the Meiji Emperor in what came to be known as the Great Treason Incident.

Sievers, Flowers in Salt, p. 73.



"A newspaper artist's sketch of some of the defendants in the Great Treason trial. Kotoku Shusui is on the left, and Kanno Suga in the center. Like Kanno, Kotoku was found guilty and hanged."

Sievers, Flowers in Salt, p. 73.