His novel Oidipusu no yaiba (オイディプスの刃, Oedipus' Sword) won the 1st Kadokawa Novel Award in 1974.[2]
In 1984, his novels Kaikyou (海峡 Straits) and Yakumo ga Koroshita (八雲が殺した Yakumo Kills) won the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature.[2]
Selection of works
Oidipusu no yaiba (オイディプスの刃 Oedipus' Sword). 1974.
Kaikyou (海峡 Straits). 1984.
Yakumo ga Koroshita (八雲が殺した Yakumo Kills). 1984. Translated by Nancy H Ross, Kaiki: Uncanny Tales from Japan, Volume 3: Tales of the Metropolis, Kurodahan Press, 2009.
Aruman no dorei (アルマンの奴隷 Allemagne's Slaves). 1990.
Gijokoku no mori no nagame (戯場国の森の眺め View of the Woods in the Playland) . 1996.