A tanka collection by Tatsue Ubukata that sings of homeland, family, age, solitude, and the self walking on amid pain like autumn and winter storm winds.

A heart walking with its face raised in a cold wind inhabits each poem.

Shoichiro Kubota's seventh tanka collection. Written around the time he reached old age, it gathers poems on daily life, nature, elegy, and social unease in clear formal tanka, inheriting the poetic line of his father Utsubo Kubota while revealing a deepening inner life.

Within clear formal verse, the collection breathes with the calm clarity of age and a warm trust in human life.