Hanashishu is a poetry collection by Fumiko Koide, published by Shinshijinsha in 1955. The book layers postwar everyday feeling with images of flowers, shaping intimate nature and emotional movement into lyric poems, and is recorded as the first recipient of the Chunichi Poetry Award.

A poetry collection in which memories and feelings entrusted to floral forms emerge as a quiet postwar lyricism.

Suimyaku no Hate is a poetry collection by Yoshio Kashiwagi, published by Mokuba no Kai in 1955. Within the flow of postwar Japanese poetry, it can be placed as an early work that explores inner shadows and a sense of distance through images of life, time, the sea, and water.

Under a title evoking a current of water and its farthest edge, the quiet inwardness of postwar poetry comes into view.