A work of haiku criticism that follows Kyoto as a central place in Takahama Kyoshi’s life and literary imagination, from his youth through his later years. By tracing sites connected to poems, fiction, essays, and travel writing, it links Kyoshi’s literature to the city’s history and atmosphere.

Walking through the Kyoto that Kyoshi loved, the book reads the places where his haiku and life took shape.

A critical study of the poetic force of modern haiku, approaching the form through both practice and criticism. It traces how words resonate inside a brief fixed form and move the reader's perception.

It looks closely at the intensity of haiku as modern poetry held in a small vessel.