Later, one summer night in 1949,
again the Buddha appeared to me,
in my cell, beside my pillow.
He told me:
The Shimoyama Case is a Murder Case.
It is the son of the Teigin Case,
it is the son of all cases.
Whoever solves the Shimoyama Case,
they will solve the Teigin Case;
they will solve all cases.

 

“Sadamichi Hirasawa,” a poem,
from Natsuame Monogatari, by Kuroda Roman,
translated by Donald Reichenbach