"Shuu" is Junnosuke Yoshiyuki's Akutagawa Prize-winning story and an early representative work that observes desire, jealousy, and weariness between men and women with cool precision. Through sexuality, it examines the certainty of the body, the uncertainty of the mind, and the loneliness hidden within relationships, marking a new sensibility in postwar Japanese literature.

Desire and fatigue arrive like a sudden rain, revealing the loneliness beneath a relationship between a man and a woman.