An essay collection based on Kenichiro Ichikawa's short column series in Hokkai Times. In brief daily pieces, it reflects on current affairs, society, culture, and life in Hokkaido.

Using the newspaper-column form, the work turns everyday incidents and social currents into compact, readable essays.

Yoichi Yoshida's "Shadows of Mathematics" is a mathematical essay collection that shows, in clear observation and graceful prose, how abstract mathematical concepts appear within everyday experience. Moving through topics such as sensation, sets, topology, and the four-color problem, it presents mathematics as something close to human thought and daily life.

This essay collection looks at the shadows of mathematics stretching into everyday life and lightly conveys the breadth of the abstract world.

"Kitsutsuki no Michi" is an essay collection by zoologist Toru Uchida, based on natural observation and scholarly life, and it won the first Japan Essayist Club Award. It conveys animal behavior, the gaze of a researcher, and wonder at nearby nature in lucid prose grounded in scientific knowledge.

A zoologist's eye for observation lets the depth of nearby nature resonate like the sound of a woodpecker.