Akito Arima's tenth haiku collection crystallizes a gaze that travels across Japan and abroad, a historical sense stretching from antiquity to the present, and an imagination moving between this world and the other world.

A traveling gaze between this world and the other world condenses the depth of history into haiku.

Kogo Tomooka's eleventh haiku collection carries memories of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake while composing the sea roar, salt wind, and boat sounds of everyday life in Akashi in gentle, deep language.

Within a life spent listening to the sea, earthquake memories and late-life quiet resonate together.