Tsurune
Tsurune is Kotoko Ayano’s high-school kyudo light-novel series and its Kyoto Animation adaptations, named for the sound of a bowstring after an arrow is released.
Japanese Literature
Ryōma ga Yuku
Ryōma ga Yuku is Ryōtarō Shiba’s 1962–1966 newspaper novel whose energetic Sakamoto Ryōma profoundly shaped the figure’s postwar popular image.
Tōten no Shishi
Tōten no Shishi is Baku Yumemakura’s four-volume historical martial-arts novel about the early Kodokan and the upheaval surrounding the creation of judo.