-Taima no Garo series (大摩のガロシリーズ): 1. **Yamase Daiichi-bu** (やませ第一部 ) 2. **Yamase Daini-bu** (やませ第二部 ) 3. **Garo no Fukkatsu** (ガロの復活) 4. **Gibachi** (ギバチ) 5. **Tashintsuu** (他心通) 6. **Kotodama** (言霊) 7. **Garo no Yado** (ガロの宿) 8. **Yori Warawa** (因童) 9. **Akai Take** (赤い竹) 10. **Kamui Gaiden: Genin** (カムイ外伝 下人)
A collection of historical fiction manga short stories. 1. **Ryuujin** (龍神) \[Moribi Murano\] 2. **Yuugao** (夕顔) \[Youko Kondou\] 3. **Konnyaku** (こんにゃく) \[Kenshi Hirokane\] 4. **Ninja Mugeijou** (忍者無芸帖) \[Hisaichi Ishii\] 5. **Gosset no Nagare** (ゴセの流れ) \[Shouhei Kusunoki\] 6. **Niji no Ikusa** (虹の戦) \[Suzue Miuchi\] 7. **Nagai Michi** (長い道) \[Yuu Takita\] 8. **Chi-zome Karasu** (血染鴉) \[Mitsuteru Yokoyama\] 9. **Sarutobi Sasuke** (さるとび佐助) \[Tatsuhiko Yamagami\] 10. **Rakujouki** (落城記) \[Kazuo Kamimura\] 11. **Hanatare Kozou** (はなたれこぞう) \[Shinji Nagashima\] 12. **Kaishaku** (介錯) \[Hiroshi Hirata\] 13. **Ikiryou** (生霊) \[Kazuichi Hanawa\] 14. **Ittou Ryoudan** (一刀両断) \[Yoshiharu Tsuge\] 15. **Yukino** (雪野) \[Hinako Sugiura\] 16. **Zashiki Warashi** (ざしきわらし) \[Sanpei Shirato\]
East Africa, 1800s. In a village wiped out by drought, an infant miraculously survives. The child is swallowed by a torrent created by a sudden squall and buried in the mud, but is saved by a passing cowherd. The kind-hearted man named the child "Bacchus" (meaning "budding thing"). But the man is killed by a falling rock. Then came a man named Zeus, who had been banished from a village as punishment for meddling with another man's wife. He returns to his former village with a number of cows and Bacchus that he happened to have in his possession. Things take an unexpected turn from there... (Source: Shogakukan)
Shirei is one of his Shirato Sanpei's earliest works, published the year after his 1957 debut *Kogarashi Kenshi*. It is notable for remaining unreprinted to this day, even as many of his earlier works have been reprinted or reissued. While the title on the cover is Shirei, the title on the frontispiece is *Noroi no Kage*. Set in Showa-era Japan shortly after the end of the Pacific War, the story depicts a father and son tormented by the vengeful spirits of the dead that repeatedly attack them, and their struggle to confront these forces. The exact reason why it has not been reprinted or reissued for so long since its initial publication is unclear, but it is thought that the vivid depictions of the military oppressing innocent civilians in the South Pacific during the war—inserted as the protagonist’s father’s flashbacks in the first half of the story—and the gravity of the content may be factors contributing to the delay in its reissue. (Source: Mandarake, translated)