The author seemed to have a plan that Kurama Tengu would be killed in a street fight during the Paris Commune that was also the stage of Osaragi's another work "Pari Moyu" (Paris Burns).
作者は鞍馬天狗の最後は『パリ燃ゆ』の舞台であるパリ・コミューンの市街戦で戦死させる構想を持っていたという。