Minetaro YAMANAKA, who attended military academy a year ahead of him, later, as a novelist, wrote the popular novel 'Tekichu Odan Sanbyakuri' (Crossing 300-ri Behind Enemy Lines) and influenced him to read Roan UCHIDA's translation of the controversial novel "Resurrection" written Lev Tolstoi.
陸軍士官学校では、「敵中横断三百里」で人気を呼ぶ小説家山中峯太郎が一級上にいて、その影響から内田魯庵訳のレフ・トルストイの『復活(小説)』を読み、物議をかもした。