The album focuses on outcasts, recluses, the mentally ill, and others struggling in ordinary society. Still others became recluses in the anchorages attached to Carmelite churches. This is a list of notable recluses, people who shun society and most other people. Some, like the painter Bada Shanren, a descendant of the Ming ruling family, became recluses. In later years, it was used by the Recluses of Corbeil as a convent. The texts are all addressed to anchoresses (religious recluses) and praise the virtue of virginity. Its perusal effected a radical change in the thoughts of many of the recluses. A 2015 Cabinet Office survey estimated that 541,000 recluses aged 15 to 39 existed. The aliens, called the Recluses, wish to keep their existence a secret. Around 1400 here began the Institute of Recluses, the early female department of the Order.