Michiyo Kuroki's third tanka collection. Gathering poems previously published in literary magazines and newspapers, it shapes childhood memories from early Showa, social observation, and the subtle shades of everyday inner life into distinctive lyricism.

A tanka collection of broad range, engaging childhood memory, social vision, and the shades of inner life.

Odoro (Thorns) is Kazuhiro Nakamura's fourth haiku collection. Against an age shadowed by natural disasters and disease, it sharply renders animals, plants, and inanimate things that cannot be reduced to human concerns.

Human shadows themselves are thorns, on an autumn night.