"Yuganda Asa" is an early mystery by Kyotaro Nishimura. Built around a case that suggests a perfect crime and the unease of everyday life gradually turning distorted, it points to the starting line of the writer's later career in mystery fiction.

The outline of an ordinary morning grows more distorted as the case is pursued.

"Kyoto" is a mystery short story by Ryu Nogami that won the 1963 All Yomimono Mystery New Writer Award. The title carries the suggestion of crime and violence, but no standalone book or paperback bibliographic record could be confirmed.

Its crime-shadowed title suggests the sharpness of a magazine-published mystery short story.