A prize-winning tanka sequence by Tadatsugu Suzuki. It layers the bodily sense of aging with the season of summer, singing lived reality and distance from home in a restrained voice.

Time moving toward old age and summer light overlap within the feeling of lived life.

A prize-winning tanka sequence by Koichi Washio. Taking Gauguin's memorial day as its title, it forcefully brings forward unease with civilization, imagined primitivism, and vivid bodily sensation.

As if stripping away the surface of civilization, primitive force and uncanny sensation surge forth.