A nonfiction work in which a newspaper journalist brings together his own experience with cancer and his view of medical care. In direct language, it portrays the anxiety of being a patient, relationships with family and doctors, and the time spent living with illness.

The time spent facing cancer as a patient becomes language for reconsidering medicine, family, and how to live.

An essay collection set around a Kagurazaka inn where writers stayed and worked on manuscripts. Memories of the neighborhood, publishing culture, and relationships between people and lodging overlap to portray Kagurazaka as a living literary site.

The presence of writers lingering in a Kagurazaka inn quietly brings back the memories of town and literature.

This essay collection traces the houses, daily practices, and communal memories of rural Oita through the eyes of someone rooted in that life. With a calm attention to folkways, it preserves the time, labor, and wisdom of village communities.

From the details of village homes and daily life, the memory of a changing place comes into view.