白髪が混じり40歳以上に見え、「ただ、いっさいは過ぎて行きます」という虚無の境地に達した姿

Falling into morphine addiction and eventually confined in a mental hospital, Yozo despaired that he was 'disqualified as a human.' Ravaged by drugs, he was taken to a deserted country house, looking like a ruin of a man over forty with gray hair at just twenty-five. 'Now everything simply passes.' That was the only truth left in his mad world.