“The inspiration for the works comes from the first three chapters of a Japanese novel No Longer Human. This is a novel narrated in first person, contains elements that portray an autobiographical basis. Many believe the book to have been the writer's will. The first three chapters are told in the form of notebooks left by one Ōba Yōzō. The story chronicles the miserable and despairing life stories of Ōba from his early childhood to his late twenties. He became a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who, instead, maintains a facade of hollow jocularity to try to survive in the society that made him feel scared. However, by the end of the final chapter, an interesting sentence was mentioned by the landlady who knew Ōba: "the Yōzō we knew was so easy-going and amusing, and if only he hadn't drunk—no, even though he did drink—he was a good boy, an angel." Coincidentally, I also find his sensitive, pure, and wise soul that was hidden by his struggling and despairing statement. I image his lively soul as a fresh salmon strip or a balloon, but is now abandoned at a dirty corner or stuck at a tree. Many people pass by, but no one is trying to pay attention to it. I hope it could remind us of the things abandoned by us might be pure and precious.”