A children's novel about emotional growth and a journey. Through travel, family, friendship, anxiety, and discovery are brought together as a young heart opens toward the wider world.

With each step of the journey, a child's heart encounters landscapes it had not known.

A broad critical history of Japanese children's songs. Linking writers, poets, magazines, and historical background, it traces how children's songs changed alongside modern Japan's view of childhood.

The history of children's songs emerges as a history of language addressed to children.