A poetry collection by Jiro Nishikome, known as a farmer-poet. It depicts labor, death, and the weight of life in rural communities through language grounded in everyday life.

A collection that looks from the fields at the closeness of death and daily living.

A poetry collection by Yoshio Kashiwagi. Like figures fixed on a broad wall, it can be read as poetry that sets postwar sensations of life and urban presence onto the page.

A volume that carves the shadows of life and its time into poetry like a mural.