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.
Historical novel
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.