Ashifune is Yuko Kawano’s fourteenth tanka collection, written as she continued composing while facing illness. Its poems look at family, the body, and seasonal change, conveying a strength that refuses to let go of life even as death approaches.

In days lived alongside illness, poems of family and seasons give off quiet strength.

Nichijo is a haiku collection in which Tota Kaneko draws moments from ordinary life through a long practice of haiku. Carrying broad thought and postwar experience, its language rooted in daily scenes shows the freedom and depth of old age.

Haiku drawn from ordinary scenes convey the free breathing and deep time of old age.

Mori e Iku Michi is a poetry collection in which memory and language waver like a path leading into a forest. Voices that seem to be heard, leaves, flowers, and small memories begin to move as if only to vanish again.

Small memories tremble on the road into the forest and begin to run once more.