安部磯雄の生涯 is recorded as a winning work for nihon essayist club award in 2012-1. The identifier check prioritized Amazon Japan, the National Diet Library, and publisher pages, but no confirmed ASIN or ISBN for the winning work itself was established in this batch. Identifiers for magazines or adjacent media have therefore not been reused.

The work is recorded as 安部磯雄の生涯; bibliographic identifiers are limited to sources confirmed as the work itself.

An essay collection that reads animals in Japanese poetry through a poet's eye and natural-history knowledge. Using horses, saury, giraffes, crickets, and other creatures as entry points, it shows with wit how animals have carried emotion and aesthetic feeling in tanka, haiku, and poetry.

In poetry, animals become companions that reflect the human heart.