Snow Before, Snow After is a tanka collection published late in Osamu Kimata's career. Framed by the changing time suggested in its title, it can be read as a volume shaped by a lifetime of poetic practice.

A tanka collection following a poet's long journey through the shifting time marked by snow before and after.

A two-volume study of modern Japanese tanka by Shino Hiroshi. Across the Meiji-Taisho and Showa volumes, it follows debates over tanka's survival, realism, and wartime verse through primary materials, examining how modern tanka formed its modes of expression and criticism.

Its more than sixty chapters range from Meiji-Taisho arguments that tanka should disappear to debates over Showa wartime verse. Arranging participants and documents chronologically, the work traces changes in the tanka world.