To fully understand the actions of Oshio Heihachiro, it must be understood that they are dictated by an anti-revolutionary character and will. Nothing in the attitude of Oshio Heihachiro wishes to question the established order. Oshio Heichachiro knows the system can be improved, but also functional. What makes the system less efficient has more to do with people than with the system itself.

Oshio's anger is directed at men, at whatever corrupts the system.

Letting people believe that a worm in the fruit is the cause of all evil is the philosophy that has always accompanied our revolutions. Who wants to drown his dog accuses him of rabies...

There is a Western arrogance that believes man is infallible. This Western arrogance has been and continues to be the essence of its anti-traditional character; and provides ever-soft ground for the will behind the egalitarian society.

Even if the Japanese brought down political systems, it was mostly by chance. There was no deliberate desire to free oneself from a system in order to change it and, above all, to replace it with another. Oshio Heihachiro is no exception to this rule. On the contrary, he makes it a golden rule. As a good samurai, his doctrine is based on ethics (Confucianism is the ethical base of the samurai). He lives at a time when the lords have not completely disappeared, replaced by politicians (from whom they sometimes descend). However, Oshio knows he does not owe allegiance to these new lords. And here again, that some are upstarts is of very little importance. What is decisive is that these lords reach this place for various reasons, but that they are not worthy of it that their behavior is not suitable.

Oshio has no will to replace these men. educate earlier by showing them their impropriety and hoping that these men will change and show themselves worthy of their charge. Oshio always hopes in the heart of man. Or more exactly, in the spirit, in the morality, in the ethics of man.

We are light years away from the Western character based on pride and arrogance. It is always difficult for me to understand this character which nevertheless is a little mine. Fortunately, the half-caste part in me mixes it up. This pride and this arrogance therefore, intimately mixed. Always eager to explain the world to the world.

Oshio will attempt his revolt. A bit rushed by events and betrayals. Some of his companions will not understand him. Oshio knew understanding was optional. There is a time for talk and a time for action. "Do the act to act and do not worry about the fruits of the act" says the Bhagavad-Gîtâ. The Yomei philosophy of Oshio paraphrasing the founding book of Hinduism by establishing that knowledge without action amounts to knowing nothing.

To make the revolution, Oshio would have had to make deals with people he hated. He should have disguised his thinking. Betray his ethics. The rebellion was better suited to its role and its character. This quest for purity will have cost him the victory.