A debut tanka collection centered on the years from late adolescence to age twenty, capturing everyday scenes through vivid metaphor. Youthful perception and the gaze toward family rise with both brightness and pain.

乱反射 is a work in which 小島なお draws out the time and emotion beneath its subject.

A tanka collection that uses the chairs of Notre-Dame Cathedral as a symbolic site for travel, memory, and spiritual shadow. European spaces and personal solitude quietly overlap.

ノートル・ダムの椅子 is a work in which 日置俊次 draws out the time and emotion beneath its subject.

As its title suggests, this tanka work looks at borders between the ordinary and the extraordinary, the self and others. It catches wavering emotion in clearly contoured language.

ボーダーライン is a work in which 細溝洋子 draws out the time and emotion beneath its subject.