Muro Saisei: Kikigaki-sho is Shinbo Chiyoko's biographical study of Muro Saisei, shaped through collected reminiscences. It approaches the poet and novelist through local memory and voices close to him.

A biographical portrait that brings Muro Saisei's life and literature into focus through remembered voices.

Silk Road is an art-historical essay by Hayashi Ryoichi that examines the Silk Road from the perspective of artistic exchange between East and West. With illustrations, it presents cultural contact and visual forms across Central Asia in an accessible way.

An art-historical essay reading the Silk Road as a route where Eastern and Western visual cultures meet.

Under the Paris Sky, the Smell of Omelettes Drifts is Ishii Yoshiko's food essay about life in 1950s Paris. Her days on stage, meals in lodgings, and the smells of the city are woven together in graceful prose.

A beloved essay that evokes Parisian tables and stage life through memories of food.