Karimichi is Gen Saito's fifth haiku collection, assembled as he faced illness in his final years. Taking its title from the path of migrating geese, a path visible when geese pass yet still present when they do not, the book distills bodily pain, the edge of life, and natural light and shadow into a quiet poetics between presence and absence.

A late collection in which the feeling of life glows quietly at the border between the visible and the unseen.