The Box Canyon was adequately named. It was a box, a trap.

He fell in a puddle and ended up covered head to toe in mud.

The thought made him smile and he patted Cec on the shoulder. ‘She′ll be apples,’ he encouraged, and Cec took up his cup.

Shinjuku Sketch demonstrates another of Ryutanji's trademark techniques, which was established in The Age of Wandering: writing English loan words as kanji Chinese character compounds cribbed with rubi to convey a visual sense of international modernism and global culture.