The Man, the Wraith, and the Romance Novelist Nishida Higashi Novelist Yukio Kawakami was understandably anxious about how to write a cutesy romance novel, while spending his days in anguish, haunted by the supernatural without realizing it. Despite having little to no experience penning on romantic subjects, he grew intrigued with watching a strange woman dancing alone in a cemetery in the midst of the night from afar. How would someone term such a feeling?