A travel essay in which the author follows the route of The Narrow Road to the Deep North after the Great East Japan Earthquake while carrying a dosimeter. The classical itinerary overlaps with contemporary radioactive contamination.

The author walks Basho’s road again, dosimeter in hand.

A record by a home-care physician reflecting on death at home and end-of-life medicine through many patients. It asks concretely what kind of death patients want and what systems or family dynamics prevent it.

It asks from the site of care how we want to die.