Set immediately after the war, the novel depicts the struggles and frustrations of young people who tried to live by Marxist ideals, framing their story around a romance born at Manshuin in northern Kyoto. It addresses postwar thought and historical realities.

Covering the late-Edo to early-Meiji period, this multi-generational novel follows the Nagasaki family of physicians in Etchu Takaoka, portraying how various intellectual currents—Dutch studies, kokugaku, sonnō jōi, and opening-to-the-West debates—shaped and wounded people across four generations.

A sequel to Sōryū no Keifu. Set in 1878, two grandsons of the Nagasaki family reunite in Paris—Isobe Shirō and Hayashi Tadamasa—and the novel contrasts their careers: Isobe as a jurist working on Japan's legal system and Hayashi as an art dealer active in the Paris art world, exploring Japan's uneven modernization.

A chronological biographical study of Hayashi Tadamasa that examines his life and the reception of Japanese art in fin-de-siècle Paris, situating his work within Japonisme and his connections with Impressionists, as well as the historical significance of ukiyo-e circulation.

A work based on the author's experience as a sixteen-year-old during Japan's defeat in WWII. It portrays wartime national consciousness, propaganda, and individual experience; the book received both criticism and praise at publication, and later archival discoveries led to reevaluation of its claims.

An edited documentary collection containing about 700 letters in French addressed to Hayashi Tadamasa from 1884 to 1906, translated with contributions by his great-granddaughter Takato Asako. The volume makes primary materials available for Japonisme and Hayashi scholarship.

A five-volume reissue compiling Hayashi's collected Western paintings and auction catalogues from his Paris sales in 1902–1903. The main text is primarily in French and the set includes commentary and a separate volume.

A comprehensive biography of Hayashi Tadamasa that uses newly available materials to discuss his activity as an art dealer, connections with Impressionists, and the role and reception of ukiyo-e in cultural history.

An art-historical study exploring the relationship between shunga (erotic prints) and the Impressionists, and reevaluating controversies around Hayashi Tadamasa—his reputation as a seller of shunga and the circulation of such works in the modern art market.

Co-edited with Takato Asako (daughter). This volume reexamines Hayashi Tadamasa's life and work, reconstructing his activities torn between fin-de-siècle Paris and Meiji Japan.

A fragmentary study that revives the life and achievements of Isobe Shirō, discussing his study abroad under the Ministry of Justice, legal publications, and efforts toward jury system implementation.