I once read the Work Collection of Katsumi Masaru series while Professor Ota was taking his after-lunch nap at his home in Shizuoka. The book felt like a guiding spirit—something he carried with him when he retired and moved from downtown Tokyo to a small town. Whenever I asked him what kind of person Katsumi Masaru was, he would say, “Someone even more important to me than my father.”

I once read the Work Collection of Katsumi Masaru series while Professor Ota was taking his after-lunch nap at his home in Shizuoka. The book felt like a guiding spirit—something he carried with him when he retired and moved from downtown Tokyo to a small town. Whenever I asked him what kind of person Katsumi Masaru was, he would say, “Someone even more important to me than my father.”

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