The famous artist Ginko Kiyotani suffers a cerebral hemorrhage and has to undergo surgery. Afterwards, his old friend Mr. Kyogoku is worried that Kiyotani's mental abilities and memory have been affected. Kyogoku tells Yamaoka that the day Kiyotani collapsed, he told Kyogoku he wanted to cook "sea pine mushroom rice" for him and claimed it was better than using matsutake mushrooms.
