A historical novel by Nobori Kiuchi set in the Nezu pleasure quarter in the tenth year of Meiji. It depicts people left behind at a turning point in history. Anxiety after the end of the samurai age, and the pride and resignation of those living in the quarter, combine to evoke the unstable feeling of sand drifting at the entrance to modernity.

In Meiji-era Nezu, the voices of people left behind by history resound.

A novel by Shusuke Michio. In a seaside town, lonely children begin a wish-making game using hermit crabs. The game gradually turns into an urgent ritual, and frustration with family, loss, and guilt become entangled, making the children’s summer irreversible.

A wish-making game among children by the sea turns into a painful ritual.