Ryu No Sode (Tokuma Bunko Fu 24-10 Tokuma Jidai Shosetsu Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Sana, the daughter of the Hokushin Itto Ryu Chiba Dojo, is a licensed katana master in her teens, and her beauty has earned her the nickname "Oni Komachi of Chiba" (Oni Komachi of Chiba). When Ryoma Sakamoto of Tosa, a new student at the dojo, asks her to play a match, the two are drawn to each other and pledge their future to each other. Sana fashions Ryoma a versatile kimono with the Sakamoto family's Kikyo (bellflower) crest on it, but Ryoma never wears the sleeves. However, Ryoma dies an untimely death without ever wearing it. Sana keeps the right sleeve of the versatile kimono as a memento... This is a story of love tossed about in the turmoil of the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate.

北辰一刀流千葉道場の娘、佐那は十代にして免許皆伝、その美貌も相まって「千葉の鬼小町」と呼ばれていた。道場に入門した土佐の坂本龍馬に手合わせを申し込まれたことを機に、二人は惹かれ合い将来を誓う。京都へ赴く龍馬に、佐那は坂本家の桔梗紋が入った袷を仕立てる。だが袖を通すことなく龍馬は非業の死を遂げた。佐那は袷の右袖を形見として...。幕末の動乱に翻弄された愛の物語。