A long novel built around a promise between a young man and woman and the years that follow. Snow, family, love, and life’s turning points are linked through Miyamoto Teru’s gentle prose.

A distant promise reconnects lives in winter light.

A biography of Irako Seihaku, the poet who left the collection Kujakusen and disappeared from the literary scene. Through poems, diaries, and related places, it restores a forgotten poet in full detail.

Twenty years of inquiry call back the life hidden behind a single book of poems.

A tanka collection by Nagata Kazuhiro, crystallizing details of daily life, marital time, and signs of nature in precise and restrained poems.

As if measuring the position of the wind, daily feeling settles into tanka.

Using Miyazawa Kenji’s “Gauche the Cellist” as its key, this critical work reconsiders modernism in music. Its discussion of instruments, technique, and pitch becomes both music theory and Kenji criticism.

From Gauche’s cello, the book rethinks modern ideas of music.

The film Warabi no Kou depicts life and death, community, and family feeling through a mountain village custom of sending the old away. It is a late major work by Onchi Hideo, developed over many years.

On the road to the mountain, aging and the severity of community are inscribed.