"Naginoha-ko" is a short story in which a man revisits the memory of a woman he met during a journey in 1936, returning to that place forty years later. Through a restrained I-novel style, it layers memories of the pleasure quarters, aging, and the distance created by time, and it received the 7th Kawabata Yasunari Literary Award.

A short story that returns to the depths of memory in Wakayama and Osaka while tracing one night from forty years earlier.