In one such incident, he visits a fruit shop he likes on a regular basis through Teramachi, the Kyoto Miyako Naka-ku (八百卯, Eight Hundred Rabbit", closed January 25, 2009).
After that, he felt uncomfortable, and even though he stopped by his favorite shop, Maruzen, he began feeling uneasy.
He felt an unchanged feeling of dissatisfaction, even though he looked at the usual picture albums that he used to like.
Then he imagines lemon as a time bomb, and the works of fine art flying out of the Maruzen shop.
This short story describes the feeling of an ailing patient and the mischievous emotions that every person has.
Kajii wrote many other works that had a main character with lung disease because the author was affected by tuberculosis himself.