Hi No Tori 4 (Kadokawa Bunko)

[Machine Translation] On the day he was born, Gao lost one of his arms, and Akanemaru had his arm cut off. Fifteen years later, the time had come for the fateful showdown between these two men, both of whom had undergone blood-soaked training as Buddhist priests. The emperor of the capital ordered them to compete to create the demon tiles for the Todaiji temple. The film depicts the extreme anguish of a Buddhist priest who craves love and tries to conquer himself. In the midst of reincarnation on a cosmic scale, he questions the smallness of individual lives and the meaning of life in spite of this. This is a new edition of the book, which includes a full explanation of the background of the creation of the book.

生まれたその日に片腕を失った我王。その我王に片腕を切られた茜丸。15年後、仏師として血のにじむ修行を積んだ2人に宿命の対決の時が来た。都の帝から東大寺の鬼瓦の競作を命ぜられたのだ。愛を渇望し、自らに打ち克とうとする仏師の極限の苦悶を描く。宇宙規模の輪廻の中、個々の命の小ささと、それでもなお生きることの意味を問う。創作の背景が分かる充実の解題収録の新装版。