A collection of tanka criticism by Masanao Matsumura. Through essays on historical periods, memories of war, and individual poets, it examines how tanka preserves social and personal memory.

A critical collection that opens tanka beyond individual appreciation into a way of reading historical memory.

Yoshikazu Shinada's study of Mokichi Saito places the poet's life and tanka within the literary, intellectual, and educational contexts of modern Japan.

A critical biography that rereads a major modern tanka poet through both his works and his era.