The grand prize winner of the third Fujimoto Yoshikazu Literary Award. It is included in the award collection The 3rd Fujimoto Yoshikazu Literary Award, built around the keyword insects, and can be identified as a short story that turns a familiar creature and human relationships into fiction through the title figure Kusa-yan.

From the small presence of an insect, the contours of human life and feeling emerge.

An excellence prize winner of the third Fujimoto Yoshikazu Literary Award. It is included in the award anthology The 3rd Fujimoto Yoshikazu Literary Award, which centers on the keyword insects, and can be identified as a short story that uses the names of colors as a way into sensation and memory.

Tracing the names of colors brings back memories of feelings that are hard to put into words.

"Mimi" is an excellence-prize winner of the third Giichi Fujimoto Literary Award. It is included in the anthology for the award's "insects" theme, and its title, centered on the bodily sense of hearing, suggests sensitivity to unseen presences and voices.

A short work included in the anthology Mushi as an excellence-prize winner of the third Giichi Fujimoto Literary Award.

"Mushi no Shirase" won a special prize at the third Giichi Fujimoto Literary Award. By placing the award's keyword directly in the title, it turns the Japanese idiom for an inexplicable premonition into the starting point for a short story.

A prizewinning short story that lets the keyword "insect" resonate through an idiom of premonition.

"Kizuisen" won a special prize at the third Giichi Fujimoto Literary Award. As one of the works gathered under the "insects" theme, its floral title draws seasonal color and the texture of memory into focus.

A special-prize work whose floral title brings in seasonal feeling and traces of memory.

"Utsusemi no Kodomo" won a special prize at the third Giichi Fujimoto Literary Award. The word utsusemi evokes the human world, an empty shell, and fragile presence, creating a title that resonates with the award's "insects" theme.

A prizewinning short story in which the layered meanings of utsusemi bring together a child and the trace of an insect.

"Kimi, Tsutsuganakiya" won a special prize at the third Giichi Fujimoto Literary Award. Its old-fashioned phrase of concern for another person's well-being links a direct address with the small unease carried by the award's "insects" theme.

A special-prize work in which an old-fashioned inquiry after someone's safety carries quiet unease.

"Anata no Scarecrow" won a special prize at the third Giichi Fujimoto Literary Award. Its title uses the word for a scarecrow, bringing together images of watching, warding off, and standing in place with the award's "insects" theme.

A prizewinning short story that layers watching over and keeping away through the image of a scarecrow.

"Umi no Mushi" won the Giichi Gallery prize at the third Giichi Fujimoto Literary Award. The title joins the sea and insects, extending the award's keyword into waterside imagery.

A prizewinning short story that links the sea and insects, expanding the keyword into a waterside world.