Tsuchiya Bunmei's twelfth tanka collection. Gathering 1,285 poems written from 1973 to 1983, it sets late-life observations in Tokyo's Aoyama Minamimachi against loss, aging, nature, and daily life in a poised realist style.

Poems written after the deaths of his eldest son and wife meet solitude and old age in a restrained voice. A poem on republishing his Man'yoshu chronology also joins scholarly work to the persistence of life.