Noto is Hisahide Sugimori's autobiographical novel, set in Nanao, his hometown, and portraying the landscape of Noto and the people who live there. Through personal memory, it looks at rooted lives and the changes brought by time.

Set in Nanao, the novel draws the landscape of Noto and its people's lives out of memory.

Fūju is a Japanese novel by Kaoru Fukui. Published by Chūō Kōronsha in 1985, it received the fiction division of the Hirabayashi Taiko Literary Award that year.

Fūju, a novel by Kaoru Fukui and a winner of the 1985 Hirabayashi Taiko Literary Award for fiction.

This literary biography follows Iwamoto Tei, a German teacher at the former First Higher School, and the people shaped by his teaching. Centering on Iwamoto, said to have been a model for Hirota-sensei in Natsume Sōseki's Sanshirō, it portrays the friendship, learning, and idealism cultivated by intellectuals from the Meiji era through Shōwa.

Through the paths of a teacher and his disciples, the book illuminates intellectual friendship and idealism in modern Japan.