Set in northeastern Japan at the end of the Edo period, this historical children's novel follows Mankichi, a boy who returns home and confronts the lives and resistance of farmers and fishers burdened by harsh taxes. It powerfully depicts a community moving toward revolt through a child's eyes.

Poverty and anger seen through a boy's eyes widen into a story of popular resistance.

Set around a stone quarry near Kumamoto, this novel portrays adults and children living under the shadow of the Pacific War. Local life, labor, and wartime pressure overlap, bringing out both a child's growth and a community's memory.

Through life around a stone quarry, the novel depicts children looking out at wartime society.

This study traces the history of children's theatre, school drama, and puppet theatre in Japan from the Meiji period onward. It surveys the relationship between children and theatre from both performance history and educational history.

A scholarly work that follows the modern history of children and theatre with chronologies and sources.