A collection of essays in which Ichiro Mikuni, long active in broadcasting, writes lightly about encounters, work, and ways of seeing everyday life. It values character and lived experience over titles, conveying the texture of Showa-era life and media culture in an approachable voice.

The book draws out the interest of people who cannot be reduced to their titles, from broadcasting rooms and everyday Showa life.

A collection of essays in which pastor and essayist Aito Ota writes warmly about life around nature and the table. Through food gathered from fields, mountains, lakes, and shorelines, meals shared with friends, and the bond between faith and daily living, the book evokes a richness apart from modern convenience.

Bringing the gifts of fields, mountains, and shorelines to the table, the book reflects on the joy of living through a pastor's eyes.

After collapsing from overwork while serving as editor of Weekly Asahi, the author turns to cultivating a small field and reconsiders the relationship between soil and human life. Through encounters with people who live close to farming, struggles with birds and weeds, making dried gourd strips, and conversations with children, the essays quietly portray a sense of nature that urban life had obscured.

An editor who takes up the hoe traces the bond between soil and human beings in a gentle, attentive voice.