A popular-fiction work that received the grand prize, the Saho Sasazawa Prize, in the Kyushu Saga Popular Literature Award. The title's image of poison points toward a story built on incident and human psychology.

Under the uneasy title Poison, the story builds popular-fiction tension from incident and psychology.

A grand-prize work of the Kyushu Saga Popular Literature Award. As the title Resume or Record suggests, it points toward a story about pasts, social histories, and the choices that shape a person's life.

Drama rises from the past and choices inscribed in a person's record.

A work that received an encouragement prize in the Kyushu Saga Popular Literature Award. Its title evokes the beginning of life, and it stands as one award-winning point in the author's regionally grounded writing career.

The title suggests a memory of life itself, carrying the feel of a story linking past and present.