Umi ni Yuragu Ito is a short story collection by Minako Oba, centered on the work that received the Kawabata Yasunari Literary Prize and containing seven pieces. Its poetic prose traces afterimages of time flowing over the author and her friends.

Memory and time overlap with the movement of the sea, emerging as a group of poetic short stories.

Yoppadani e no Koka is Yasutaka Tsutsui's self-selected fantasy collection, including the work that received the Kawabata Yasunari Literary Prize. The title story leads readers into a dreamlike otherworld through the fantastic image of descending through milky webs spun by Yoppa spiders.

The fantasy of descending through milky spider webs opens a distinctly Tsutsui-like otherworld.