A novel in which Soichiro is asked by an unknown elderly woman to draw a man’s portrait, gradually revealing the threads of fate connecting the woman, the man, and Soichiro himself.

A single portrait quietly brings forgotten bonds and the fragility of life into view.

An art-historical study that rereads modern painting through city space, light, and visual culture, moving from Seurat to Tissot and Bonnard.

Through light and urban scenes painted by modern artists, the book searches for another face of modernity.

A story connected to the screenplay and source of the film Dokuritsu Shonen Gasshodan, where a boys’ choir brings together unchanged voices, communal life, and the pressures of its era.

Where boys’ voices overlap, friendship and the atmosphere of a repressive era resonate together.