Kan SHIMOZAWA wrote "Mibu shinju" on Matsubara's death, reconstructing the stories that Tamesaburo YAGI of the Yagi family, where Shinsengumi quartered, had heard about him from Tainoshin SHINOHARA and Hajime SAITO.
松原の死に関しては、新選組が屯所を構えていた八木家の八木為三郎が篠原泰之進や斎藤一から聞いた松原忠司の話を子母沢寛が再構成した「壬生心中」がある。