[DeepL Translation - needs review] Description of Volume 1: A full-length novel (Part I, above) by Shimazaki Toson, a literary figure active from the Meiji era to the early Showa era. The first part was published by Shinchosha in 1932. Set in the turbulent period from before and after the arrival of Perry to the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration, it is a great work of his later years that vividly depicts a group of people surrounding Hanzo, the eldest son of the Aoyama family, ...
