Taizaburo Tsukada's Wadokei is an essayistic study of Japan's distinctive timekeeping and clock culture. It shows not only the mechanisms of the objects but also how ways of measuring time were tied to daily life and aesthetic feeling.

The hands of Japanese clocks reflect lived time and the sensibility of craftsmen.

Tsuneichi Miyamoto's Nihon no Rito is an ethnographic work based on visits to islands across Japan, recording life, transport, livelihoods, and changing communities. It treats remote islands not as margins but as a way into understanding Japanese society.

From the voices of island communities, a social history of Japan comes into view.

Eiji Shono's The Light of Rotterdam is an essay collection where wartime memory, postwar Japan, and a gaze toward Europe overlap. Through foreign landscapes, it quietly contemplates the beauty and fragility of living things.

A foreign light illuminates memories of war and the fragility of life.