Life exists not in an inevitable order but in a contingency. As far as a language is a metaphor, we never grasp a truth; therefore, we have to redescribe our lives continually to keep ourselves alive. Daisuke Namba (18991924) is known as the criminal who, during The Toranomon Incident of 27 December 1923, was an assassination attempt on Prince Regent Hirohito. He carried out his acts alone, without the support of any organization or comrades. Although there have been many assassination plots in modern Japanese history, this incident differed from other cases. Namba willingly chose a life that would lead to his untimely death. He lived during a time of transition, from the middle of the Meiji period almost to the end of the Taisho period. He was raised in Yamaguchi Prefecture, which produced many of the talents who went on to government during the Meiji Restoration. His grandfather was a loyalist Samurai, and Namba inherited the Samurai mentality. However, during his youth, new foreign ideas were spreading into Japan. Contemporaneously, the revolution taking place in Russia was influencing intellectuals in Japan. At that time, many young men were flocking into the chaos of the imperial capital in search of new lives. Meanwhile, Namba spent time observing and interacting with various people who were socially alienated. During the Taisho period, people praised human respect but gravitated, as if by centripetal force, toward catastrophe. In his last words to his father, Namba insisted that people should live not for their ancestors but for their offspring. In this paper, I attempt to redescribe rather than describe these events, which are a part of history, but remain controversial and relevant today.