Last Battle and Death
Maki took part in the Jinmon Incident of 1864, and joined in Chōshū's attack on Aizu-Satsuma allied forces in Kyoto; however, he was beaten back. He committed suicide with his troops at Tennōzan, when he was surrounded by Aizu forces under Hayashi Gonsuke and Jinbo Kuranosuke, and Shinsengumi forces under Kondō Isami. His death poem was: "Swirling around the rock-roots of the great mountain is the Japanese spirit of my life" (大山の 峯の岩根に うづみけり わが年月の やまとだましひ, Ōyamano mine no iwane ni uzumikeri waga nengetsu no yamatodamashi e?). Maki was buried in Ōyamazaki-chō, Kyoto.
The writer Mitsumasu Kimiaki is Maki's descendant.
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