In the following year, he published a novel, "Oshitsunbo" (deaf-mute), in installments in the paper and established himself as a newspaper novelist with his subsequent novels, "Shigureen" and "Kaioumaru."
翌年、同紙上に「唖聾子」を掲載、続いて「しぐれ縁」「海王丸」などで新聞小説家としての地位を確立した。