This short story follows a narrator visiting Teradomari in Echigo, observing a snowy town and its people. With an interest in Ryokan in the background, it portrays the atmosphere of place and human solitude encountered during travel with Tsutomu Mizukami's characteristic sense of climate and locality.

In snowy Teradomari, the traveler's eye gathers the solitude of place and the work of human lives.

Centered on an aging rakugo performer, this short story draws on the feeling of the rakugo piece Tachikire while dryly depicting relationships, aging, death, and the end of performance. It turns sentimental romance into a modern coldness.

Drawing on a rakugo love story, it coolly depicts aging and the end of an art.