This children’s story follows life with baby Mamoru, temporarily brought into a relative’s home, and depicts the confusion and attachment that grow in a child’s heart. It gently traces how someone first felt as a burden becomes irreplaceable.

The words “you may forget” hold the tenderness of meeting and parting.

A poetry collection titled after the season of puddling fields before rice planting, capturing rural time, soil, water, and human labor in poetic language. It looks at natural cycles through the texture of daily life and renders seasonal feeling in a clarity accessible to children.

In the season when soil and water begin to move, the language of daily life becomes poetry.