 The 1927 novel by Jirō Osaragi was the basis for the 1964 Taiga drama "Akō Rōshi".Eiji Yoshikawa, Seiichi Funahashi, Futaro Yamada, Kōhei Tsuka, and Shōichirō Ikemiya have also published novels on the subject.Maruya Saiichi, Motohiko Izawa, and Kazuo Kumada have written criticisms of it.