In four short memoirs drawn from his own childhood and adolescence, Shuzo Oshimi revisits the earliest seeds of guilt, shame, and artistic awakening. Each story is rooted in a formative moment from his ordinary kindergarten, elementary, or high school days, moments that continue to ache beneath the surface of memory. The collection does not follow a single plot but instead presents a series of intimate, autobiographical vignettes that explore the emotional wounds Oshimi carried into adulthood—regret over a petty betrayal, the sting of loneliness, the weight of pride, and the shame of a small but unforgotten transgression. Together, these episodes form a portrait of how a young person’s buried sins can shape the inner world of a future artist. The setting is the Japanese countryside and school life of the 1980s and 1990s, rendered in Oshimi’s signature psychological style. The central figure is the author himself as a boy, surrounded by classmates, teachers, and family members who drift through these memories like ghosts. Each narrative arc is self-contained, building toward a quiet, unresolved ache rather than a tidy conclusion, reflecting the permanence of certain childhood wounds.