A prize-winning haiku sequence by Wataru Emi. With a title drawn from an everyday garment, it gathers bodily sensation and the atmosphere of daily life into a restrained sequence of fifty haiku.

From the touch of a single sash, the senses of daily life and season quietly unfold.

A prize-winning haiku sequence by Eiji Yamaguchi. Its title evokes a person or place guarding old books, and the work can be read as capturing aged paper, memory, and quiet labor through the brief breath of haiku.

From the act of guarding the silence of old books, accumulated time begins to rise.