Kunio Tsukamoto's third tanka collection is a major work that brought avant-garde metaphor, proper names, and a sharp sense of rhythm into postwar tanka. History, death, the body, and urban sensibility interweave densely, expanding the boundaries of traditional tanka.

Avant-garde tanka metaphors carve postwar death and history into the thirty-one-syllable form.

Mieko Manabe's tanka collection, with a title suggesting translucent glass, records emotional movement and delicate sensations of daily life. As an early winner of the Contemporary Tanka Poets Association Award, it shows one path in the diversification of postwar tanka.

Within a title like a transparent vessel, daily emotions settle into tanka.