This fiction winner of the 26th Mita Bungaku Newcomer Award appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of Mita Bungaku. A review of university literary magazines describes it as an avant-garde work, presenting it as fiction that gives weight to experiment in language and structure rather than conventional plot movement.

An award-winning newcomer work that searches, through an avant-garde mode of narration, for the moment when people reach toward something.

This fiction winner of the 26th Mita Bungaku Newcomer Award appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of Mita Bungaku. A literary review introduces it as a comparatively orthodox story, beginning with a person lying in a moonlit Japanese-style room.

From the quiet of moonlight begins a story that stays close to human life and memory.

This work received an honorable mention in fiction at the 26th Mita Bungaku Newcomer Award. An Asahi Culture Center notice says the winning work can be read on the Mita Bungaku website, and the author's own note refers to it as a preceding work related to the later piece Wannyakko.

An honorable mention that left behind characters vivid enough to generate a related later story.