A linked poetry collection that views the year 1990 from multiple angles. It renders social instability and personal drift through firm, reflective language.

It inscribes the feel of a drifting age through a sequence of many-eyed poems.

A haiku collection by Kureo Manabe, layering fantasy and multiple meanings onto a gaze fixed on life and death. Echoing the folkloric image of the snow woman, it gives dense shadows to brief poems.

A haiku collection clothed in the shadow of the snow woman, staring at the border of life and death.