A novel that depicts lives shaken by the winds of the age through the conversations and presences of people gathered in a bar. Against an unsettled atmosphere, aging, solitude, and distance between people emerge.

Behind the murmur of the bar, the lonely time of its people comes into view.

A linked historical fiction series set in Fukagawa, Edo, portraying the lives and feelings of people who pass through a gatekeeper's hut. Warmth of common life is gently layered with the sadness carried from the past.

At a small gatekeeper's hut in Fukagawa, people's pasts and feelings gather.