1458, Muromachi period. The castle of Takita, besieged for ten days, is about to fall. To avoid this, Satomi Yoshizane, lord of the clan, promises the hand of her daughter to the one who brings her the head of her enemy. That same night, his dog appears with the head of the villain Anzai Kagetsura between the jaws. This is how the most famous cape and sword novel in Japan begins, and the most extensive in the world, in which a princess will give birth to eight warriors born each with a virtue: filial piety, honor, loyalty, trust , fraternity, courtesy, wisdom and benevolence, the eight virtues that illustrate the principles of Confucianism. 1813, period Edo. The master of literature Takizawa Bakin asks his friend, the famous painter Hokusai, to illustrate the new book he is writing. He still does not know, but the novel is destined to become one of the masterpieces of Japanese literature: Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (The legend of the eight warriors dog of the Satomi). Fūtarō Yamada, undisputed dominator of the historical genre, offers us not only a thrilling adventure novel, but also an exciting journey through the life of one of the essential authors of oriental literature. A novel that alternates between the fiction based on the classic of Bakin, and the struggle of this against the passage of time before blindness prevents him from finishing the 106 volumes of which will consist his masterpiece, which will take him to complete 28 years. An exciting literary epic, half reality half fiction, based on the life and work of one of the greatest authors of Japanese literature of all time.