Notes
"The essays in this book originally appeared in my column "Ui no okuyama," which ran for approximately seven and a half years in the Tōkyō Shimbun, Chūnichi Shimbun, and Hokuriku Chūnichi Shimbun newspapers starting in April 2012. The first half of the series was also printed in the Hokkaidō Shimbun and Nishinippon Shimbun newspapers."--page 218.