Hanashippanashi Omake 1

Hanashippanashi "afterword"

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Instead of an afterword
Hanashippanashi
the beginning

At night, when I was passing through a nearby shrine.
Oh yeah...

The body of the dead cat that I saw in the afternoon,
It might have that mother cat that was taking care of the kittens here.

They used to play a lot at around Inari's shrine [Inari, Uka-no-mitama, the God of harvests]

I guess I should go take a look...

... It's completely dark.

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Someone's there...

*Nya- *Nya-

For some reason I felt like it'd be bad to interrupt.

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Ah

... Sorry...
She sure moved like a cat, I thought.

What if that was the ghost of the dead cat?

YOU SAW, DIDN'T YOU~
Kya-~

Yeah right.

The next morning, I went over there again.

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Ah...

*Su- Su- [Zzz Zzz]

That wasn't the ghost of the cat, it was just a Kitsune. [Kitsune, or foxes are the messengers of Inari]

... And from all that happened, that's roughly the experience that I had that was the seed that led me to write, "On a day you can hear the band" [Not sure what the English title ended up being, I forget, but check for consistency]
And drawing, "On a day..." was the seed that led me to start "Hanashippanashi."

If any of the stories in "Hanashippanashi" become a "seed of imagination" for even a single person who read it, that would be a blessing. [That would make me very happy]

[I made the decision to keep the "seed" part in all of the previous parts so I could use the "seed of imagination" phrase he uses at the end]