A novel in which a husband's infidelity breaks his wife's mind and turns married life into an unending cycle of accusation and apology. Drawing deeply on autobiographical material, it portrays love, guilt, madness, and the pain of living together with raw intensity.

It depicts, with devastating density, a time in which a marital bond breaks yet cannot be severed.

Representative works by Kazuo Kikuta. Gametsui Yatsu portrays the vitality, poverty, and desire of people in Osaka's lower town with dark humor, while Gashintare can be read as a story of wandering and hardship resonant with the author's own life.

With theatrical heat, it portrays the desires and resilience of people surviving at the bottom of poverty.

A Japanese-style painting by Tamako Kataoka. Painted in color on a two-fold screen, it fills the surface with intense longing and tension, conveyed through figures suggestive of women noh performers.

A Japanese-style painting that inscribes human presence and prayer-like longing across a large surface.

A study of contemporary Italian music by Hidenobu Amano. It introduces modern Italian music through composers, works, and historical background, bringing trends in European music of the period to Japanese readers.

A Japanese-language study systematically introducing composers and works of modern Italian music.

A major study of medieval performing-arts history by Tatsusaburo Hayashiya. It examines how performance traditions were inherited from antiquity into the medieval period, discussing noh, gagaku, and folk performance as foundations of Japanese cultural history.

It interprets the flow of performing arts from antiquity into the medieval period as a structure of Japanese cultural history.