He also successively published "Maihime" (The Dancing Girl), "Foam on the Waves" and "The Courier" which location were set in Germany, a country almost unknown to Japanese people at the time.
当時、情報の乏しい欧州ドイツを舞台にした『舞姫』『うたかたの記』『文づかひ』を相次いで発表。