A tanka collection by Masamichi Abe. It entrusts seasonal feeling and inner movement to fixed-form tanka, taking the image of birds taking flight as a central tone.

The sense of birds taking flight overlaps with changes in season and mind.

A tanka collection by Takeshi Miura. Under a title that evokes Tokyo's waterways and lived memory, it inscribes urban scenery and personal feeling into the tanka form.

In the river's name, urban time overlaps with private lyricism.