Bakin was so intensive a reader of "Suikoden" that he wrote such works as "Takaosenjimon" and "Keisei Suikoden" (A Courtesans' Shui hu chuan) adapting "Suikoden," was involved in the publication of "Shinpen Suikogaden," translation of the original, and insisted that the 120 episode version was orthodox, criticizing the 70 episode version by Kim Thanh Than.
馬琴は『高尾船字文』『傾城水滸伝』など翻案作品を執筆しただけでなく、原典の翻訳『新編水滸画伝』の刊行に関わったほか、金聖嘆による七十回本を批判して百二十回本を正統とする批評を行うなど、『水滸伝』の精読者であった。