A Thread of River is a novel by Kiyoshi Naoi, first privately printed and later published by Shinchosha. In a sense of time resembling a river's flow, life and memory continue in a thin but unbroken line.

A slender river carries memory and the persistence of life.

Dreamtelling is a linked fictional work by Meisei Goto that reconstructs childhood in colonial Korea and repatriation through a dreamlike narrative. Personal memory and colonial experience intersect, reopening the boundary between self and other.

A major Meisei Goto work that follows colonial memory through the movement between dream and narration.