A tanka collection that sets details of daily life against postwar memory and the pain of youth. The title's image of wheat carries a sense of life continuing to grow through difficulty.

Like wheat growing, time marked by pain moves toward language.

A representative early sequence by Kyoko Inaba, bringing together family, childbirth, illness, and a girl-like imagination. Beneath its gentle lyricism lies a dark urgency.

Behind the brightness of a small feast, the pain of life glints vividly.