Gikyoku Boken Shosetsu is a play by Kunio Shimizu that layers theatrical time with fictional adventure around aging princesses and the passage of years. As the title suggests, dialogue on stage steps beyond ordinary realism like an adventure story, shaping aging, memory, girlhood, and decay through language charged with fantasy and irony.

A play in which stage and language become an adventure, and the time of aging princesses shifts in a dreamlike motion.

A linked short-story collection by Masayoshi Nakamura. The title story centers on life with a father released from Sugamo Prison, portraying a family marked by the wounds of the postwar period, the loneliness of youth, and the texture of life in the margins of the city. Together with the other stories, it looks at postwar society from a place close to the author's own memory.

From the view on an overpass, a postwar city overlaps with family wounds and a young man's wandering.