Boroya no Shunju is a collection of short stories by Haruo Umezaki that depicts human absurdity and weakness in ordinary life with humor and satire. Distinct from his war-experience fiction, it lightly reveals the distortions and comedy hidden in postwar daily living.

Small incidents around a dilapidated house reveal human frailty and comic truth.

"The Tale of the Koyasu Dog" is an animal story by Yukio Togawa based on his encounter, as an old-system high school student, with the now-vanished Japanese Koyasu dog. Through the last Koyasu dog, Chin, and the people who loved him, it quietly asks about disappearing nature and human responsibility.

This Naoki Prize-winning work portrays the life of Chin, a vanished Japanese dog breed, with deep affection for animals and a sense of farewell.