This work won the grand prize and the Sahozawa Saho Prize at the 24th Kyushu Saga Popular Literature Award. Selected in the final year of a prize for mystery, historical, and period fiction, it appeared in Shosetsu NON and was later included in the collected volume Kyushu Saga Taishu Bungaku Sho 23 and 24.

A prize-winning work of mystery or historical fiction, collected in the anthology for the award's final years.

This work received an honorable mention at the 24th Kyushu Saga Popular Literature Award. Award listings record Takashi Iijima's Hadan ouke soro nochi as an honorable-mention work in the prize's final year.

An honorable-mention work from the final year of a public prize for mystery, historical, and period fiction.

This work received an encouragement award at the 24th Kyushu Saga Popular Literature Award. Award listings record Rio Haraguchi's Aoi kanzashi to natsu no tegami as the encouragement-prize work in the prize's final year.

A publicly submitted work selected for the encouragement prize in the final year of the Kyushu Saga Popular Literature Award.