A biographical novel tracing Shiko Munakata from his birth in a blacksmith's family in Aomori through encounters with Soetsu Yanagi, the mingei movement, and writers and thinkers of his time, until he becomes an internationally recognized woodblock artist. The book brings Munakata's unruly creative force to life through the landscape of his native region and his drive toward art.

From Aomori to the world, the force within Munakata races through the path of woodblock art.

A poetry collection by Shinkichi Ito that develops a homesick lyricism shaped by his native Joshu landscape, long literary memory, and an expansive sense of wind and sky.

A voice looking back toward the native landscape resonates with the time of an aging poet.

Bi to Fudo: Meihin Meisho tono Deai is a collection of essays in which art historian Jo Okada writes about the relationship between Japanese beauty and place through encounters with masterpieces and master artisans. From the perspective of a scholar of lacquer arts, it reads the texture of works, the craft of makers, and the aesthetic sense nurtured by local climates.

An art essay collection tracing the climates that nurtured Japanese beauty through encounters with masterpieces and master artisans.

“Ikeda Yasaburo Chosakushu” is a ten-volume collection that gathers Yasaburo Ikeda's work across folklore, performing arts, oral tradition, classical literature, and essays. Using words and arts embedded in daily life as clues, it reads the deeper layers of Japanese culture.

A collected edition tracing the depth of Japanese culture through folklore and performing-arts memory.

A pair of television drama scripts by Hayasaka Akira from 1979. Shura no Tabi Shite follows a woman assaulted by an occupying soldier, her accusation, life in America, and return home, exposing harsh family and local gazes. Zoku Jiken: Umibe no Kazoku probes the wounds of a family behind a murder in a fishing village through courtroom drama.

Postwar wounds and family fractures are depicted through a homecoming drama and a courtroom drama.

"The Diary of Anne Frank / Shigosen no Matsuri" refers to Osamu Takizawa's theatrical achievements in 1979-80. He newly directed The Diary of Anne Frank for Gekidan Mingei and gave a weighty performance as Awa Minbu Shigeyoshi in Shigosen no Matsuri, demonstrating his stature as a leading postwar shingeki actor and director.

A prize subject that showed Osamu Takizawa's maturity in shingeki through both directing and acting.

A film adaptation of Atsushi Mori's Akutagawa Prize-winning work, depicting the inner life of a young man who spends a winter at a snowbound temple near Mount Gassan. Life in an isolated village, his encounter with Fumiko, and the presence of death and faith gradually accumulate as changes within him.

At a temple shut in by the snows of Mount Gassan, a young man comes close to the boundary between life and death.