Runaway Horses - References To Other Works

References To Other Works

• Minamoto no Sanetomo, a poet of the 13th Century, to whom the fictional Kito's Hekiraku is compared (ch.7)
• Kita Ikki's An Outline Plan for the Reorganization of Japan (日本改造法案大綱 Nihon Kaizō Hōan Taikō), written in 1923, considered unsuitable for his followers by Isao (ch.18)
• Matsukaze, a Noh drama featuring the actors Kanesuke Noguchi and Yazo Tamura (ch.19)
• Atsutane Hirata, a Shintoist famous for diatribes against Buddhism (ch.22-23)
• The last poem by Inokichi Miura, of the Sakai Incident, chanted by Sawa (ch.26)
• An anti-Buddhist poem by Kohei Tomobayashi, recited by Sawa (ch.26)
• Isao receives Dr. Inoue Tetsujirō's Philosophy of the Japanese Wang Yangming School in prison (ch.35)
• A gramophone record of Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in Richard Strauss's tone-poem Till Eulenspiegel is listened to by Prince Toin (ch. 32)
• In an essay, Baron Shinkawa mentions The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (ch.28)