 The common theme is the image of a magistrate with a flashy cherry blossom tattoo on his shoulder who fights against corrupt officials and greedy merchants in defense of the ordinary people.The novelist Tatsurō Jinde (陣出達郎) wrote a series of books about Kin-san.Noted actor Chiezō Kataoka starred in a series of eighteen Toei "jidaigeki" films about him.