However, this novel also adopted the yomihon style (books for reading, particularly Bakin KYOKUTEI's "Nanso satomi hakkenden" [The Chronicles of the Eight Dog Heroes of the Satomi Clan of Nanso]) in the way it applies the concepts of 'wisdom', 'benevolence' and 'courage' to the characters in the story.
が、登場人物に「智」「仁」「勇」の観念を当てるなど、読本（具体的には曲亭馬琴『南総里見八犬伝』）の系譜にも連なっている。