Muroji is Ken Domon's photographic work on Muroji Temple in Nara, capturing its landscape, temple buildings, and Buddhist images. Since Domon first visited the temple in 1939, it became a central subject in his long engagement with ancient temples, forming an important meeting point between postwar Japanese photography and Buddhist art.

A photographic work that distills the Muroji landscapes and Buddhist images Ken Domon pursued throughout his life.

"Muragimo" is an autobiographical novel by Shigeharu Nakano, following "Nashi no Hana" and "Uta no Wakare." It traces the inner life of Yasukichi Kataguchi as he moves from an old-system high school to Tokyo Imperial University, placing his search for thought and life against the Shinjin-kai, the Godo Printing strike, and the approaching force of the proletarian movement.

Amid student activism and the stirrings of labor struggle, a young man's inner folds absorb the light and shadow of his age.

Ryukyu no Minyo is a study by composer Kikuko Kanai that investigates folk songs of the Ryukyu Islands, bringing together their origins, historical changes, musical features, and lyric commentary. Published by Ongaku no Tomo Sha in 1954, it received the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award for systematically introducing Ryukyuan and Okinawan songs to readers in mainland Japan.

A study of folk song that conveys the origins and sound of Ryukyuan music through notation and commentary.

A multi-volume anthology of modern Japanese literary criticism edited in part by Suekichi Aono and others. It gathers essays on authors, works, literary history, poetry, drama, and related critical fields, tracing major currents in modern and postwar Japanese literary thought.

The set follows the development of criticism around modern Japanese literature across multiple volumes.

Meiji no Seijika-tachi is Shiso Hattori's historical study of Meiji constitutional politicians as figures leading toward Hara Takashi. By following Mutsu Munemitsu, Hoshi Toru, Ito Hirobumi, Itagaki Taisuke, Okuma Shigenobu, Yamagata Aritomo, Katsura Taro, Saionji Kinmochi, Hara Takashi, and others, it brings out the character of Japanese politics inherited from Meiji into Taisho and Showa.

The book reads the flow of Meiji political history not only through institutions but through birth, temperament, and political skill.

"Watakushitachi no Kenpo" is an introductory book in which constitutional scholar Toshiyoshi Miyazawa and educator and children's writer Ichitaro Kokubun explain the Constitution of Japan for both children and adults, with illustrations by Fumiko Hori. It presents the full constitution in accessible language and conveys the ideas of postwar democracy and rights through stories, poems, and letters close to everyday life.

A rereading of the spirit of Japan's Constitution in everyday language for children and adults alike.

Nihon no Nogyo is a 1955 volume edited by agricultural economist Yasuo Kondo. It examines postwar Japanese agriculture through institutions, farm management, rural society, and statistical understanding, presenting the problems of Japanese agriculture after land reform from a social-scientific perspective.

A postwar study of Japanese agriculture that views the years after land reform through both farmers' realities and social-scientific method.

"Kagaku no Gakko" is Yojiro Tsuzuki's Japanese translation, published in Iwanami Bunko, of Wilhelm Ostwald's introductory chemistry book for general readers. Through a plain, dialogic style, it teaches the properties of matter and chemical change as processes of observation and thought rather than memorization, leading readers toward the spirit of natural science.

A classic introduction that opens chemistry not as memorized formulas but as a school for observing and thinking about nature.

An accessible science and engineering book by gear specialist Masao Naruse, explaining the mechanisms, shapes, design, manufacture, and industrial role of gears. It connects technical knowledge with manufacturing and everyday industrial life.

Starting from the familiar machine element of the gear, the book explains how technology works and how manufacturing is conceived.

Takasakiyama no Saru is Junichiro Itani's account of long-term observation of Japanese macaques at Mount Takasaki in Oita Prefecture, revealing the social structure of the troop. Through careful attention to rank, relations among individuals, and the behavior of provisioned wild monkeys, it became one of the starting points of Japanese primatology.

A landmark field study that showed, through notebooks and observation, that Japanese macaque troops have social structure.