A long critical study in which Wakamatsu Eisuke rereads Kobayashi Hideo’s entire body of work as a lifelong inquiry into beauty. Through encounters with Bergson, Rimbaud, Mozart, Motoori Norinaga, and others, it follows how Kobayashi’s criticism moved toward reality itself.

Entering the reality of the “beautiful flower” that Kobayashi Hideo’s words pursued.