Michizure is the first volume of Tetsuo Miura's Mosaic short-story sequence. Through very brief stories, it builds fear, tenderness, and wavering memory into a larger pattern.

Brief stories accumulate until fear and warmth in human life emerge like a mosaic.

Mibuncho is a novel by Ryuzo Saki. Through the path of a man released after serving his prison sentence, it sharply portrays family registry, solitude, and relations with society.

A novel that questions the boundary between individual and society through a man forced to live alone.