Akesato appeared in "Shinsengumi Ibun" (Curious stories about Shinsengumi) that was written based on the stories heard from Tamesaburo YAGI (the son of Yagi family in which Shinsengumi quartered) by Kan SHIMOZAWA, a novelist, in the Showa period
明里は小説家の子母澤寛が昭和になって八木為三郎（新選組が屯所としていた八木家の子息）からの聞き書きした『新選組遺聞』に登場している。