A poetry collection by Ryu Kuroiwa. It condenses the sense of the sea as a domain, loneliness behind landscapes, and bodily perception into spare lines with a quiet, hard-edged diction.

Standing at the boundary of the sea, the poems render loneliness and texture behind the landscape.

A volume in the Selection Kajin series that includes Eiko Suzuki’s tanka collection Aburazuki. Its poems bring war, family, and everyday memory into sharp focus, revealing social shadows within individual life.

War and family memory enter everyday scenes, giving the tanka a deep chiaroscuro.

A haiku collection by Akito Arima, also known as a physicist. It joins scientific intellect with seasonal perception, extending modern haiku through proper names and a broad interest in civilization.

A scientist’s outlook and haiku’s seasonal awareness create an intellectually expansive poetic world.

A haiku collection by Yoson Kurahashi. Under a title suggestive of Zen sitting, it observes seasons and daily life with still attention, leaving spirituality and space inside compressed lines.

A still, seated gaze preserves small seasonal movements in haiku.