There was an extraordinary incident concerning Secchubai that, since Yukio OZAKI who wrote the preface of its first printing was long-lived, he contributed the introduction of the Iwanami Bunko edition published after the war as well.
初版の序文をよせた尾崎行雄は、長命であったので、戦後刊行された岩波文庫版にも序文をよせるという珍しいできごともあった。