A novel in diary form that follows writers modeled on Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Kikuchi Kan, and Kojima Masajiro, tracing the literary world of the Taisho period and the end of youth. Kuze Mitsuhiko evokes an era of brilliance and shadow with elegiac refinement.

It records the fading time of Taisho alongside the youth of its writers.

This fantastical novel summons Mori Mari into a forest of print as “Mori-musume,” where the writer-narrator is drawn into and unsettled by her image. It turns an encounter with a literary dead into variations of cats, woods, and verbal labyrinths.

The dead are reborn inside books, and the writer meets that voice in a forest of print.