Tsukuyomi is a tanka collection by Kaneko Yamamoto. While its title evokes moonlight and the feeling of night, it renders daily experience, nature, and inner shades through the compressed language of tanka.

In a collection named for the moon, daily life and inner shadow quietly reside.

Thunder is a tanka collection by Yasuo Kurushima. Using the force and afterimage of thunder as a point of departure, it captures memory, travel, family, and the feeling of its era in tanka form.

Like the echo of thunder, memory and time flicker within the poems.