Hikari to Kaze to Kumo to Ki to is a children's novel that passes on the memory of the Battle of Okinawa to young readers. With its title evoking light, wind, clouds, and trees, it looks at lives and everyday worlds broken by war and quietly deepens its appeal for peace.

A story that looks at what war took away through the remembered sky and trees of Okinawa.

Tosuke-san, Play the Flute! is a children's novel about the friendship between Tosuke, a boy who loves nature, and an injured kestrel. Through the eyes of a boy who listens to birds, it quietly speaks of the preciousness of vanishing nature and the cruelty of human behavior.

A boy's encounter with a kestrel awakens care for nature and attention to living beings.