A work of fiction published under the name Tomohiro Okubo. It marks the starting point of the author later active as Gonpachi Okubo and appeared in All Yomimono as a 1980 All Yomimono Newcomer Award-winning work.

The All Yomimono Newcomer Award-winning work that marked Tomohiro Okubo's beginning as a writer.

A historical story centered on a disciple connected with Katsushika Hokusai. Against the world of ukiyo-e and artistic apprenticeship, it appears to portray the viewpoint and conflicts of a person living within Edo art.

From the position of Hokusai's disciple, the story looks at Edo artists and the transmission of art.