"Outside the Haginochyaya district of Nishinari-ku, Osaka, the road is zigzagging, with usually wet and dirty walls. All around here are traces of urine and feces, strongly stink odor of discarded clothes, garbage, newspaper, and bottles of booze. I breathe in the smoky air of the city. Running till sweaty, as if the whole area is also sweating like me. To make the smell and dirt ingrained in the book. It could only be me."

- Kota Kishi