 It was in this role that he met many of the men who would later become famous in the Meiji period, including Katsura Kogorō, Ōkubo Toshimichi, and Saigō Takamori.Before long, though, he was transferred back to Edo and entered the Tokugawa bakufu's French-trained infantry.His French military instructors were said to have remarked, "Tatsumi is a genius of a soldier."