Semi-serendipity

So used am I to mangaka writing their own stories that I tend to forget that not all of them do, and that some manga are done from pre-existing novels. Partly because of that, partly because I tend to binge shop for Japanese books late at night when the brain and eyes don't work as well as they should, when I turned up this book in the middle of an amazon.jp search for Hatsu Akiko and saw it was a romance set in Taishou, I bought it with no more thought than 'My, the Ohchou Romanse mangaka draws like Hatsu Akiko.'
( The absence of 'comikku' might have tipped me off )