Awa mo Ichizu is Tadashi Iwata's seventh tanka collection. It looks steadily at daily life and lived experience while weaving in humor that slips out of seriousness and the time of aging, showing the maturity of a postwar tanka poet.

A tanka collection where humor slips out of a serious gaze on life.

Yushun is a tanka collection by Yukari Kojima. Centered on the sense that the mystery of life can be found within sorrow, it attends closely to seasons, the body, and movements of the heart. Its quiet lyricism carries a strong inward tension.

A tanka collection that gazes at the precious mystery of living within sorrow.