Sumika is a novel in which Yoshikichi Furui layers dwelling, body, memory, and relations between men and women to portray unease and instability hidden inside everyday life. The dwelling that should be a place of living emerges as a space where intimacy and solitude, relief and madness, intersect.

A place of living becomes not only a refuge but an unsettling space where body and memory stir.

Sora no Hosomichi is a linked fiction collection that portrays longing and solitude in old age through quiet lyricism and a restrained prose style. Centered on the encounter between an elderly man and a girl, it layers aging, memory, and vanishing time into the feeling of walking a narrow path through everyday life.

The solitude of old age and an encounter with a girl continue like a quiet narrow path.