A historical novel portraying the era from Minamoto no Yoritomo's uprising to the founding of the Kamakura shogunate as a chain of passion, ambition, and power among warriors. By illuminating figures around the center, including Ano Zenjo, it presents the birth of Kamakura as more than a story of victors.

As Yoritomo's uprising spreads across the Kanto plain, the ambitions of warriors flare within a ring of fire.

The title story of a collection centered on China-set fiction. Focusing on Zhang Shaozi and Zhang Er as they travel under concealed identities, it depicts foreign landscapes, status, intrigue, and human loneliness.

On a journey under a hidden identity, Zhang Shaozi is drawn into a foreign landscape and the designs of others.