No one can speak about the book brought to your attention better than the author himself, the most famous master of modern Japanese literature: “The ultra-short stories (probably a strange name, but I can’t think of another) of this collection were actually written for series of magazine advertisements. The first part is for the clothing brand “J. Press", the second - for Parker fountain pens. Although, as you can see, the content of the stories has absolutely nothing to do with clothes or fountain pens. I simply wrote them according to my own taste, Anzai Mizumaru made illustrations for them, and next to them the magazine somehow guiltily published an advertisement for the product. A series of stories for J. Press" was published in the magazine "Men's Club", a series for pens - in the magazine "Taye". I don’t know how effective they turned out to be from an advertising point of view - and, frankly, I don’t even want to think about it.” For the first time in Russian.