In early Showa-era Japan, a married woman working as a café waitress begins a relationship with a university student who idolizes Junichiro Tanizaki and practices sadomasochism. As she endures repeated humiliation yet cannot stop loving him, the story asks what salvation of the soul can mean for a woman in such surrender. Written in classical Japanese orthography, this debut work captures a world of intense erotic obsession and feminine devotion. Winner of the 86th Bungakukai Newcomer Award. Includes the title story and "Katakana Thirty-Nine Characters' Suicide Note."

A work of ultimate erotic devotion — a woman's spiritual surrender and wandering soul, rendered in classical Japanese script set against the Showa boudoir.

A short story that won the Okunoto Hikaru Encouragement Prize at the 86th Bungakukai Newcomer Award in 1998. The work explores themes of identity and the struggle to reconcile the self with reality, following a young protagonist navigating an idiosyncratic world. Published in the June 1998 issue of Bungakukai.

A debut short story depicting the inner world of a young person caught between reality and illusion, rendered in a distinctive rhythm and narrative voice.