Shoan is a historical novel named after Akechi Mitsuhide's literary name, presenting Nobunaga and the path to the Honnoji Incident through Mitsuhide's eyes. It portrays Mitsuhide as a figure of strategy and refinement while layering ambition with inner conflict.

A historical novel that depicts Mitsuhide's intelligence, refinement, ambition, and anguish from his own point of view.

From the Brink of Death centers on poems Jun Takami wrote from his sickbed around surgery for esophageal cancer. It records fear, resistance, and resignation before death with the urgency of a diary and the compression of poetry.

A voice from the sickbed stares at death and gives the final outline of life the shape of poetry.