A fifty-tanka sequence representing Machi Tawara's early work. It brings conversational language, romance, and youthful feeling into tanka and points toward the fresh colloquial style later seen in her first collection, Salad Anniversary.

A sequence that sings youthful uncertainty in everyday language and shows the power to widen tanka's readership.

A tanka work leading into Hiroshi Homura's first collection. It turns urban feeling, unstable romance, and gaps in conversation into light yet sharp language, becoming an important starting point for new-wave tanka.

It turns young urban sensibility into tanka with dry humor and urgency.