Kakeru Shonen is a collection centered on a young man tracing the life of his late father, where family memory and his own present intersect. With fresh sensitivity, it depicts youthful restlessness and a gaze turned toward the past.

A young man follows his father’s life through family records, and his journey unfolds with quiet urgency.

Higan Sensei is a novel that boldly rearranges memories and icons surrounding Natsume Soseki, relativizing the authority of modern literature through irony and play. Masahiko Shimada’s intellectual wit turns literary history itself into narrative material.

A work that dismantles the image of Soseki while lightly connecting literary history with contemporary fiction.