Hiroki Saegusa's sixth tanka collection, Jito-shu, gives form to accumulated experience, thoughts of the dead, the natural landscape of Koshu, and the quietness of daily life in a tone close to prayer. Rather than simply releasing emotion, the book refines tanka into language that stays close to lived experience.

A sixth tanka collection, appearing after a long interval, where experience and prayer quietly overlap.

Michimasa Sato's eleventh tanka collection, Rento, carries the places and time after the Great East Japan Earthquake, writing of overturned daily life, the presence of the dead, and the thoughts of those left among the living. Like a chain of lights, the book connects personal memory with the memory of social catastrophe.

A tanka collection that lights a path between life and death from the ground after disaster.

Takashi Tonotsuka's twelfth tanka collection, Sanroku, records fragments of daily life while the poet remains conscious of the ages reached by his father and teacher. Details of living, the passage of time, and the wavering of memory accumulate like scattered notes.

A twelfth tanka collection that gathers daily fragments while looking toward the ages of father and teacher.

Shion Mizuhara's tanka collection Epistole moves through time and space, reality and fiction, as if sending letters to everything that exists and does not exist. Classical technique and bold imagination resonate together, loosening ordinary reality and leading readers toward otherworldly beauty and pathos.

A tanka collection moving between time, space, reality, and fiction like letters addressed to existence and nonexistence.