Ketsuro: Nanryō Nanatsuya Hiroku is a historical action novel set in the Sengoku period, when Takeda Harunobu seeks Ryūjingatake Castle as a route into Shinano. It follows the conflict between the mountain people known as Nanryō Nanatsuya and Takeda's assassination group, Kamakiri. It won the second Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award for Taku Hasegawa.

Amid Takeda's schemes for Ryūjingatake Castle, the mountain people of Nanatsuya enter a deadly struggle with the assassination group Kamakiri.

Blue Blood was a finalist for the second Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.

Chikahiro Hiroiwa's Bengoshitachi no Hakaba was a finalist for the second Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not the award-winning work.

Nagiko Marumo's Heisei no Kazoku was a finalist for the second Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient. The award went to Taku Hasegawa's Nanryo Nanatsuya Hiroku: Nanatsu no Futatsu, later published as Ketsuro.

Haruka na Takeda Kibatai was a finalist for the second Kadokawa Haruki Novel Award, not a prize recipient, so it is not listed as an award-winning work.