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By 1952 he was in Tokyo, working at the Bureau run by the Postal Ministry.[ Around this time he dabbled in writing plays.][
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In 1958, he was struck by a DUI car, suffering injuries expecting to take 8 months to fully heal.[ But his short stories extra="The message in the dark" and extra="The ninth victim", which he had submitted to prize contest before the accident both qualified and were printed in the December 1958 special issue of the Hoseki magazine.][
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In 1960, his extra="The uninvited guest" became a runner-up for the 5th Edogawa Rampo Prize,[ and the release of this in book format marked his debut as novelist.][
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He adopted the pen name Saho, which was taken from his wife's name 佐保子.[
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His extra="Man-eater", 1961 was awarded the 14th Mystery Writers of Japan Award, after which he resigned from the Postal Ministry and became a full-time professional writer.[
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With his extra="Roppongi double-suicide" (1962) he received his third nomination for the prestigious semi-annual Naoki Prize for popular fiction.[ He had been twice nominated for the prize before, for Hitokui and extra="Starting point of blankness", and although he was short-listed to win this time,][ he was disappointed once again.][ Around this time, while declaring himself to be one of the practitioners of honkaku-ha (本格派) or "orthodox school" of mystery fiction-writing, he wrote a trilogy on double-suicide without homicide;][ of these, the Naoki Prize-nominated Roppongi Double-Suicide was appraised as a piece "depicting empty love between a young man and a girl", which entwined "the drama of loss of faith in humanity" into the mystery novel.][
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In 1970, he ventured into writing period novels (in particular matatabi fiction about traveling gamblers) with extra="Sunset at Look-back Pass".[ Sasazawa's style of this gambler fiction has been characterized as "casting a nihilistic shadow, an added an aura of Cowboy Westerns".][ The samurai period gambler piece that brought Sasazawa lasting fame was his Kogarashi Monjirō series,][ begun with the episode entitled extra="The Clemency Flower has Scattered", 1970. The book was TV-dramatized with Atsuo Nakamura playing the leading role of the gambler Monjirō, and the program achieved immense popularity.][.][
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He continued to write fiction in both contemporary and period settings.
Some of his outputs in modern settings from the subsequent period include the child-kidnapping novel extra="Midnight poet", 1972, called a masterpiece on par with his earlier great works;[.] extra="My love so far", 1976 which launched the Detective Isenami series;extra="Cape homicide", 1977 was a time-limit kidnapping story with a twist,[ the scandal-monger must devise a ransom for the perpetrator who only wants vengeance; extra="The marriage-proposing locked room", 1978 features a well-crafted locked room gimmickry.]
He also became well known at one time for Akuma no heya ("Devil's room", 1981) and its sequels in his Akuma ("Devil") series of erotic suspense-thriller novels ( kannō sasupensu),[ this being a hybrid genre between the erotic novel and suspense-thriller.
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His extra="Alibi song", 1990 started the Hideo Yoake casefile series of novels, dramatized on TV as the starring Tsunehiko Watase;[
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Period pieces in other than his Monjirō include extra="Wandering highway", 1972 which employs mystery novel techniques in historical settings,[ the Jigoku no Tatsu crime-solving novels (1972–), televised as extra2="Tatsu from hell's Casebook";]
During his lifetime he published some 377 books.[
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With declining health in 1987, he recuperated at a hospital in the town of Mikatsuki, Saga which bore a name similar to (Mikazuki Village), the fictitious birthplace of Monjirō. After being discharged, he made the adjacent town of Fujichō his home,[ and although he had to relocate in 1995 to in Saga city for hospital access, the Fujichō residence later became the Sasazawa Saho Memorial Museum.][
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He established the for literature by new authors in 1993, with the final 24th prize awarded in 2017.[
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In 2001 he returned to Kodaira, Tokyo,[ and succumbed to liver cancer (HCC) on 21 October 2002 at a hospital in Komae, Tokyo.][
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Legacy and influence
He was a prolific writer, who at his height wrote 1,000 or even 1,500 pages of manuscript per month,[ apud BLOGOS, review, 2015-03-10.]、he has been called a "constant innovator" [ or experimenter. In particular, Sasazawa is known for applying the mystery novel techniques of "surprise-twist endings ( donden-gaeshi)" and climatic endings in writing matatabi fiction, thus introducing a fresh angle in the fiction about these wandering rogue swordsman-gamblers.][
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He wrote a study in sensual-erotic suspense with the novel extra="Demon's Room"[ which was adapted into film, and crime novels consisting entirely of conversation, such as extra="the flip-reversal",][ and extra="fellow believer of the path",][ and extra="rear-view icon" where the alibi trick undergoes a complete 180-degrees plot-twist.]
He held a staunch purist stance about detective fiction writing. Sasazawa identified himself as a proponent of the extra2="New Orthodox School" or "New Authentic School". Such a writer, he explained, was not only required to be "orthodox" (or "authentic") and devise a clever trick used in the crime, but in addition, needed to maintain realisticness in the human characters employed.[ When he sat on the selection panel for the Edogawa Rampo Prize, he repeatedly bewailed the laxening of the definition of what could be considered "detective fiction". In 1977, he wrote an essay that polemicized against the novel of manners contaminating the mystery fiction genre.]["Fūzoku shōsetsuka no kōzai 風俗小説化の功罪" Suiri shōsetsu kenkyū 推理小説研究, (7).]
Selected works
Modern mysteries
The Misaki ("Cape") series
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extra="Cape Homicide", 1976
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extra="Cape Adultery", 1978
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extra="Cape Merciless", 1979
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extra="Cape Escape", 1981
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extra="Cape Lover", 1981
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extra="Cape Devil", 1985
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extra="Cape Afterglow", 1987
The Akuma ("Devil") series
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extra="The Devil's Chamber", 1981
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extra="The Devil's Lakeside", 1981
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extra="The Devil's Relationship", 1982
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extra="The Devil's Hostage", 1982
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extra="The Devil's Silence", 1983
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extra="The Devil's Enticement", 1983
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extra="The Devil's Execution", 1994
The Yōbi ("Days of the Week") series
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extra="The Woman Weeps on Monday"
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extra="No Kills on Sunday"
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extra="The Belated Rain of Tuesday"
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extra="Darkness Visits on Wednesday"
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extra="Goodbye North-Wind of Saturday"
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extra="Evil Woman dies on Thursday"
The Hideo Yoake taxi-driver series
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Overtaking]]: Casebook of Driver Detective Hideo Yoake", Kodansha Novels, 1991
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extra="One Way Street", 1992
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extra="Past Noon", 1994
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extra="Dawn", Nichibun Bunko, 1998
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extra="Evening", 1999
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extra="Alibi Song:"9, 199
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extra="The Living Ghost: a Taxi-Driver's Deduction Journal", Tokuma Shoten, 2000
Misc.
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extra="The Uninvited Guest", 1960
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extra="Melting in the Fog", 1960
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extra="What is Marriage Anyway", 1960
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extra="Maneater", 1960
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extra="Starting-point of Blankness", former title extra="Starting-point of Lonely Woe", 1961
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extra="Woman of Froth", 1961
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extra="Don't want to Break up at Midday", 1961
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extra="Dark Slope", 1962
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extra="Sudden Tomrrow", 1963
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extra="Shaking Filed of Vision", 1963
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extra="Midnight Poet", 1972
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extra="Three Personae Dramatis", 1975
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extra="My Love so far", 1976
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extra="My Distant Scream", 1977
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extra="Virtual Flame Image", 1977
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extra="Abnormal Individual", 1978
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extra="Vesper at Sea", 1979
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extra="The Marriage-Proposing Locked Room", 1978
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extra="Underground Water-veins", 1979
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extra="The Seven Murder Case", an anthology of shorts, 1980
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extra="Flip-reversal", anthology, 1981
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extra="Masquerade Moonlight", 1982
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extra="Enchanting Moonlight", 1983
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extra="Rear-view Icon", 1981
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extra="Turn back and it's Fog", 1987
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extra="Dinner in the Fog", 1989
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extra="Interrogation Room: the Silent Death-Struggle", 1993
Period novels
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extra="Sunset at Look-back Pass", Kodansha, 1970
Kogarashi Monjiro series
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extra="The Clemency Flower has Scattered", Kodansha, 1971
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extra="Ripping the Women's Group's Darkness", 1971
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extra="Slicing the Six Jizo's Shadows", 1972
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extra="Standing at the Fork in the Road at Dawn", 1972
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extra="The Dampened in the Fog", 1972
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extra="Fireflies over Grudge Hill", 1973
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extra="Flute sounded on ", 1973
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extra="Cried twice in the Misty Rain", 1976
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extra="Life is for throwing away one time", 1976
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extra="Cross the Sanzu River Alone", 1977
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extra="A Crescent Moon You Will Never Again Behold", 1977
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Mutsu Province]], a Seven-day Speed-Race", 1978
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extra="New Kogarashi Monjiro: the Mountain-Pass Flower that Danced and Scattered", 1988
Return of Kogarashi Monjiro series
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extra="The Return of Kogarashi Monjiro", Shinchosha, 1996
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extra="Likewise a Killer", 1996
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extra="Abduction", 1997
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extra="Farewell Ball-bouncing-song", 1998
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extra="When Sword-slaying an Evil Woman", 1999
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extra="The Final Surmounting of the Mountain-pass", 1999
Downfall: Rise and Fall of the Tokugawa Cabinet
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extra="Old Vassals of the Kan'ei Period" Shodensha, 1993-12
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extra="Fight between the Tairōs Sakai Tadakiyo" and Hotta Masatoshi, 1994-09
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extra="Opposition between Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Arai Hakuseki", 1995-04
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extra="Yoshimune's Dictatorship", 1996-03
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extra="Reformer Tanuma Okitsugu's Profound Schemes", 1996-12
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extra="The Black Ships and the Last Power-wielders", 1997-09
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Shodensha Bunko format
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Sakai Tadakiyo]]", 2002-01
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extra="Volume Two: Shogun Yoshimune's Conspiracy", 2002–03
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extra="Volume Three: The Black Ship Pandemonium", 2002–05
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[[Miyamoto Musashi series
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extra="Musashi, You Are Defeated", Bungeishunjū, 1990-01
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extra="I Harbor Nefarious Thoughts", 1990-02
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extra="No Need to Clear My Name", 1990-03
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extra="Venerate thee My Splendour" , 1990-08
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extra="I shall Die", 1991-02
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extra="The Bond is Difficult to Sever", 1991-08
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extra="Suspicious-mindedness is to be Feared", 1992-03
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extra="I have Strategy Alone", 1992-08
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extra="Women-folk, Never Forget", 1993-05
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extra="Do the Faithful Deed", 1994-02
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extra="My Heart Unsettled", 1994-07
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extra="A Kill, Nothing Less", 1995-02
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extra="Walk on, All Alone", 1995-07
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extra="One's Own Enemy Being Nobody", 1995-12
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extra="Strategy Never Dies", 1996-06
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Bunshun Bunko format
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extra="Book of Heaven", Bunshun Bunko, 1996-10
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extra="Book of Earth", 1996-10
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extra="Book of Water", 1996-11
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extra="Book of Fire", 1996-11
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extra="Book of Wind", 1996-12
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extra="Book of Air", 1996-12
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extra="Book of Spirit", 1997-01
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extra="Book of Estoterics", 1997-01
Sanada Ten Braves series
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extra=, , 1980-09
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extra=, 1980-11
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extra=, 1981-05
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Kobunsha Bunko format
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extra=""5, Kobunsha Bunko, 1989-01~0
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Futaba Bunko format
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extra="1 Sarutobi Sasuke Travels the Provinces", Futabasha Bunko, 1997-02
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extra="2 Miyoshi Seikai the Tonsured on a Great Rampage", 1997-03
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extra="Saizo Defeats Miyamoto Musashi", 1997-04
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extra="4 Sanada Yukimuro Enters Osaka Castle", 1997-05
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extra="5 The Braves Fall on the Battlefield", 1997-05
Yakubyōgami Casebook
Donta's caebook.
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extra="Donta the Yakubyōgami", Tokuma Shoten, 1991-10
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extra="The Yakubyōgami Casebook", 1997-02
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extra="The Infant Fallen out of the Sky", 1998-07
Yume to shōchi de
Or, "Full knowing it's a Dream" series
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extra="Untold Tales of Nezumi Kozo and Historical Men (1)", Yomiuri Shimbunsha, 1985-11
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extra="Untold Tales of Nezumi Kozo and Historical Men (2)", 1985-11
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extra=" Nezumi Kozo and Toyama Kinshiro (1)", Kobunsha Bunko, 1991-11
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extra="Nezumi Kozo and Toyama Kinshiro (2)", 1991-11
Jigoku no Tatsu series
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extra="Tatsu from Hell's Brutality Casebook: The Headless Jizo will not Talk", Kappa Novels, 1972
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extra="The Relinquished his Jutte tool", 1972
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extra="Ruffian's Journey along Tokaido Highway", 1976
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Kobunsha Bunko fo
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Kubinashi jizō wa katarazu, Kobunsha Bunko, 1985-11
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Okappiki ga jūji wo suteta, 1985-12
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Asu wa meido ka Kyo nō yume ("Dream of Hell or Kyoto Tomorrow"), 1986-06
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Shodensha Bunko format
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extra="Tatsu from Hell's Crime Record Files", 1999-04 , Shodensha Bunko
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extra="Tatsu from Hell's Brutality Notebook", 1999-09
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extra="Tatsu from Hell's Atrocity Notebook", 1999-12
Hanmi no Okon series
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extra="I. I Will Tell no Gripe", Kodansha, 1974
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extra="II. Hating Destiny", 1974
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extra="III. Sobering up and Throbbing", 1975
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Kobunsha Bunko format
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extra="Female Vagabond Hanmi no Okon: I Will Tell no Gripe", 1986-11
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extra="Female Vagabond Hanmi no Okon: Hating Destiny", 1986-12
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extra="Female Vagabond Hanmi no Okon: Sobering up and Throbbing", 1987-01
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Shodensha Bunko series
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extra="Hanmi no Okon: Female Vagabond's Merciless Journey", Kobunsha Bunko, 2000–06
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extra="Hanmi no Okon: Female Vagabond's Brutal Sword", 2000–08
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extra="Hanmi no Okon: Female Vagabond's Merciless Journey", 2001–06
- Itako no Itaro series
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extra="Itako no Itarō: Disappeared into the Great Tone River's Darkness", Yomiuri Shimbunsha, 1975
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extra="Duel at Sanmai Bridge, Mount Hakone", 1975
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Kobunsha format
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Itako no Itarō: Ōtone no yami ni kieta, 1982-08
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Itako no Itarō: Kettō Hakone-yama Sanmai-bashi, 1982-10
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Tokuma Bunko format
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Ōtone no yami ni kieta, 1988-06
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Kettō Hakone-yama Sanmai-bashi, 1988-07
- The Banished One
- Kuki Shinjūrō series
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extra="Vanished in Edo's Evening Fog: The Banished One, Kuki Shinjūrō", , 1978-08
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extra="The Beauty or the Fox or the Mountain Pass Road", 1979
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Tokuma Bunko version
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Edo no yūgiri ni kiyu, 1989-05
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Bijo ka kitsune ka tōge michi, 1989-06
Mushukunin Mikogami no Jokichi
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Mushukunin Mikogami no Jōkichi jō, Volume 1, Kodansha, 1972
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Mushukunin Mikogami no Jōkichi chū, Volume 2, 1972
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Mushukunin Mikogami no Jōkichi ge-no-ichi, Volume 3. Part 1, 1973
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Mushukunin Mikogami no Jōkichi ge-no-ni, Volume 3. Part 2, 1973
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Tokuma Bunko format
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"Volume 1", Tokuma Shobo Bunko, 1987-10
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"Volume 2", 1987-11
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"Volume 3", 1987-12
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"Volume 4", 1988-01
Otonashi Gen's Casebook
extra="Otonashi Gen's Casebook: Series Period Mystery Novels", 1979-02, Kobunsha
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Fujimi Shobo
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extra="Bride's Frenzy", Jidai Shosetsu Bunko, 1987-12
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extra="The Woman at the Hot Spring Spa" , 1988-02
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extra="The Stolen Arm" , 1988-03
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extra="The Cat's Specter", 1988-04
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extra="The Ukiyo-e Woman" , 1988-05
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Shodensha format
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extra="Darkness Hunter's Casebook", Non Pochette Bunko, 1996-12
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extra="Darkness Hunter's Casebook anthology", 1997-07
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extra="The Mocking Graves anthology", 1997-12
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Ukiyoe no onna, 1998-06
Himeshiro Nagaretabi series
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extra="Tokaido (Road)'s Whirlwind: Himeshiro's Wandering Journey", Kofudo Shuppan, 1980-10
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extra="Nakasendo (Road)'s Stray Bird", 1980-11
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extra="Koshu Road's Rain-soaked Kasa-hat", 1981-01
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extra="Nikko Road's Crazy Flower", 1981-01
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extra="The Byroad's Broken-off Moon", 1982-07
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Himeshiro's Medicinal Art Travels
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extra="The Kaei 2 Caesarian Section", Tokuba Shobo Bunko, 1990-03
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extra="The Kaei 3 Total Anesthesia", 1990-04
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extra="The Kaei 4 Vaccination", 1990-05
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extra="The Kaei 5 Artificial Respiration", 1990-06
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extra="The Kaei 6 Alcoholism", 1990-07
Haiku-Poet Issa's Casebook
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extra="Haiku-poet Issa's Casebook: Yajirobei of Tears"9, Kobunsha, 1989-0
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extra="A Blue Spring Rain: Issa's New Casebook", Kadokawa Shoten, 1991-10
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extra="Issa's New Casebook: Crying at the Crescent-moon", 1993-01
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extra="Issa's New Casebook: A Blue Spring Rain", 1993-11
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extra="Book of the Emaciated Frog", Kobunsha Bunko, 1995-05
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extra="Book of the Harvest Moon", 1996-01
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Bunko, 2001–03
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Bunko, 2004–05
Genpaku and Utamaro's Casebook
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extra="Genpaku and Utamaro's Casebook", Kobunsha Bunko, 1993-02
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extra="The Hellish Woman-killing", 1995-09
Otasuke Doshin series
Otasuke Doshin or the "Helpful Doshin-Detective"
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extra="Otasuke Doshin Patrols Notebook", Sankei Shimbun Seikatsu Joho Center, 1992-10
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Non Pochette Bunko format
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extra="Hatchobori Otasuke Doshin's Secret Tales: The Immoral Adultery anthology", Non Pochette (Shobunsha imprint), 1995-10
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extra="Hatchobori Otasuke Doshin's Secret Tales: The Lawbreaker anthology, 1996-02
Misc.
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extra="Oshu Province Road where Flowers Scatter on Snow", Bungeishunjū, 1971
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extra="War-turmoil History of Japan", Shogakukan, 1977
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Bunshun Bunko format 1982-01
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extra="Nikko Road Laughing at Hell", Bungeishunjū, 1972
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Bunshun Bunko format 1982-04
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extra="Wandering Highway", Kodansha, 1972
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KobunshaBunko format 1988-08
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extra="Sword-Demon Sobbing", Bungeishunjū, 1976
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Bunshun Bunko format 1987-11/Tokuma Bunko format 2002-07
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extra="Swordsman Burns Down and Dies: Okita Soji the Human", Shinchosha, 1976
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ShinchoBunko format 1984-01
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extra="New Tales of Ooka's Rulings", Shinchosha, 1979-01
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ShinchoBunko format 1984-09
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extra="The Great Edo's Ruffian", 1980-05
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extra="A Hatomodo-man of a Generation", Shincho Bunko, 1988–12. Retitled from Ōedo burai.
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extra="The Doshin Detective Akatsuki Rannnosuke: an Edo-Period Law Casebook", Fushosha, 1982-04
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extra="Kitamachi Magistarate's Jomawari-Doshin Detective's Casebook", Non Pochette Bunko, 1988–11. Retitled from 同心暁蘭之介 江戸期の法律捕物控.
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extra="Ambition's Shogun", 2 vols., Shueisha, 1984-02
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extra="Today yet another Dream: Hirate Miki's Other Tales", Yomiuri Shimbunsha, 1986
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extra="Tenki's Secret Swordplay", Shinchosha, 1988-11
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Shincho Bunko format, 1991-09; Futabasha, 1997-05; Tokuma Bunko format, 2002-01
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extra="Kansei Period: the Oniwaban Gardenkeeper-Agents' Secret Tales", Non Pochette Bunko, 1988-03
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extra="Bunsei Period: Secret Records of the Eight Provinces Patrol", Non Pochette Bunko, 1988-05
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extra="Strategist Takenaka Hanbei", Kadokawa Bunko, 1988-09
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extra="Bunkyu Period: Shimizu no Komasa's Ruffian Sword", Non Pochette Bunko, 1989-04
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extra="Bloom Fallen: the Resourceful General Akechi Mitsuhide", 1989-09, Shincho Bunko
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extra="One Thousand Kilometers, The Sword Dashes", Kobunsha, 1990-10
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extra="The Direct Courier Dashes", retitled, Kobunsha Bunko, 1999-02
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extra="Azai Nagamasa's Decision: Forkpath of Wisdom and Folly", Kadokawa Bunko, 1990-10
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extra="Madness, a Spring Night's Dream: Matsuo Basho and Yaoya O-Shichi", Kobunsha Bunko, 1992-10
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extra="The Iemitsu Assassination: Fifteen Days of Defense and Offense along Tokaido", Bungeishunjū, 1993-03
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Bunshun Bunko format, 1996-03; Kobunsha Bunko format, 2000–05
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extra="Ieyasu's Punishment by Death, the Chronicles of the Affair", Futabasha, 1994-12
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Futaba novels edition 1997-05
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extra="Lady-folk's Harakiri", Kobunsha Bunko, 1995-01
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extra="Kobayakawa Hideaki's tragedy", Futabasha,, 1997-10
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Futaba novels edition 1997-05
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Futaba Bunko format 2000-06
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extra="Ofudosan Kinuzo's Casebook", Kobunsha, 2000–04
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Bunshun Bunko format, 1996-03; Kobunsha Bunko format, 2005-01
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extra="A Jomawari-Doshin Detective's Puzzle-solving Notebook", Shodensha Bunko, 2001-01
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extra="A Jomawari-Doshin Detective's Final Puzzle-solving", Shodensha Bunko, 2002–12
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extra="The Pirate Ship Yurei-maru", Kobunsha, 2003–10
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Kobunsha Bunko format, 2006-03
Autobiography
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extra="A Poet's house", 1978
Essays
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extra="The Secret to Loving and Being Loved", Shodensha, 1978
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extra="Tomorrow It Will Befall Me: For Parents with a Conscience", Inner Trip, 1981
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extra="If that's the Kind of Love, You Should Quit"; Part2; Part3. PHP, 1990; 1991; 1993
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extra="The Ignorance Manufacturing Industry, Japan, Inc.", Kadokawa, 1990
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extra="Cancer is part of me: Living out Life to the Fullest. My Chronicle of Surmounting Cancer", Kayryusha, 1994
Adaptations
Films
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extra="Kogarashi Monjiro", 1972, Toei, starring Bunta Sugawara.
[ Kogarashi Monjirô (1972)" on IMDb][
]
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extra="Kogarashi Monjiro: It's nothing to do with me", 1972, Toei, starring Bunta Sugawara.
[" Kogarashi Monjirô: Kakawari gozansen (1972)" on IMDb][
]
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extra="The Return of Kogarashi Monjiro", 1993, Toho, starring Atsuo Nakamura.
[" Kaettekite Kogarashi Monjirô (1993)" sic. on IMDb][
]
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extra="Drifter Mikogami no Jokichi: The Fangs Did Tear Apart", Eng. Title The Trail of Blood, 1972, Toho, starring Yoshio Harada.
[" Mushukunin Mikogami no Jôkichi: Kiba wa hikisaita (1972)" on IMDb]
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extra="Drifter Mikogami no Jokichi: In the River-Wind Did the Past Flow Away", Eng. Title The Fearless Avenger, 1972, Toho, starring Yoshio Harada.
[" Mushukunin mikogami no jôkichi: Kawakaze ni kako wa nagareta (1972)" on IMDb]
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extra="Drifter Mikogami no Jokichi: In the Twilight Sparks Did Fly", Eng. Title Slaughter in the Snow, 1973, Toho, starring Yoshio Harada.
[" Slaughter in the Snow (1973)" on IMDb]
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extra="Demon's Room", 1982, Nikkatsu, starring .
[" Akuma no heya (1982)" on IMDb]
TV Dramas
TV series
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extra="Kogarashi Monjiro", 1972, Fuji TV.
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extra="Kogarashi Monjiro, the Continuation", 1972-73, Fuji TV.
[
]
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extra="The New Kogarashi Monjiro", 1977-78, Tokyo 12 Channel Television.
[" Shin Kogarashi Monjirô (TV Series 1977–1978)" on IMDb][
]
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extra="Sasazawa Saho's Matatabi Series", 1972, Fuji TV. Toge/Mountain Pass series. Adapted from chapters in Mikaeri tōge no rakujitsu (1970).
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extra="Tatsu from Hell's Casebook", 1972-73, TV Asahi.
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extra="Eight Provinces Casebook", 1974, Fuji TV.
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1981-82, Fuji TV.
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extra="Hanmi no Okon", 1991, TV Tokyo.
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extra="The Helpful Doshin Goes Forth", 1993, TV Tokyo.
One-off /Single episode
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extra="Himeshiro's Drifting Journey", 1982, Fuji TV.
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extra="Soundless Gen: The Letter Sa Murder", 1983, Fuji TV.
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extra="Payment for Betrayal: The Banished One, Kuki Shinjuro", 1983, Fuji TV, starring Shigeru Tsuyuguchi
[ 裏切りの報酬 追放者・九鬼真十郎 on ; Drama Zenshi テレビドラマ全史 (1994), , p. 415]
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extra="Full Knowing it's a Dream: Nezumi Kozo's Great Edo Adolescence Painting", 1988, NTV.
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extra=lit. "Taxi Driver's Deduction Journal", also given as "Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary", 1992–2016, TV Asahi, starring Tsunehiko Watase.
[" Taxi Driver no Suiri Nisshi 1 (1992)" on IMDb]
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extra="The Iemitsu Assassination: The Mysterious Assassin Squad Closes in on the Third Shogun!", 1995, TV Asahi.
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Lilium auratum]] Murder Case". Original screenplay to extra="The Soft-hearted Detective Kiyoshiro Miyamoto: The Mountain Lily that Invites Death", 2005, TV Tokyo., TV Tokyo.
[Attribution to Sasazawa and screenplay confirmed on the network's webpage for the 9 May 2015 reairing, and 20 September 2019 reairing on satellite.]
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extra=2009, Fuji TV starring, Yosuke Eguchi.
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extra="Lady Interrogating Officer", 2011, TBS.
Manga adaptations
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extra=, artwork by Goseki Kojima, Geibunsha, 1973.
[ Kogarashi Monjiro, comics (paperback) via Amazaon.jp ]
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extra="Tatsu from Hell's Casebook", artwork by , Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, 2004.
[ Jigoku no Tatsu torimono-hikae, Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha, 2004 via NDL catalog.]
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extra="Sanada Ten Braves", artwork by , LEED, 2016.
[ Sanada jūyūshi: , LEED, 2016 via NDL catalog.]
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extra="In the Silverwolf was Beheld his Loneliness", artwork by Kaiji Kawaguchi, adapted by , Ohzora Comics, 2007.
[ Ginrō ni kodoku wo mita 1, Ohzora Comics, 2007 via NDL catalog.] From the Itako no Itaro series.
Explanatory notes
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