A tanka collection by Yasufumi Suzuki. With old age in the title, it expresses daily sensations, memory, and life’s thresholds in compressed tanka language.

It observes the time of old age through the quiet breath of tanka.

A tanka collection by Manjuko Koguchi. In language suggested by the vivid flower of the title, it holds daily life, nature, and inner heat in tanka form.

Like the impression of a crimson flower, inner heat dwells in these tanka.