Urakami Yoban Kuzure is Kataoka Yakichi's historical nonfiction account of the persecution of Christians in early Meiji Japan. It follows the suffering of the Urakami believers through documents and close attention to place.

A documentary work tracing faith and persecution left in the shadow of the modern state's beginnings.

Kumo Hyakutai is Nishiki Saburo's nature essay on the life and observation of spiders. By looking closely at a small familiar creature, it opens up questions of form, habit, and environment.

An essay that uses the observation of spiders to reveal the intricacy and surprise of nearby nature.

Sekkyou to Wagei is Sekiyama Kazuo's study of the relationship between Buddhist preaching and Japanese narrative performance. It traces forms of preaching, techniques of storytelling, and their connections to popular performance history.

A study of performance history tracing the path from Buddhist preaching to narrative arts.