A poetry collection by Konno Kazuyo. It strings together varied images such as chimera, Salome, and Okuni to give strong voice to urban shadows and loss.

A chain of images lifts up the feelings sunk beneath the city.

A self-published poetry collection that quietly looks at life and death against the backdrop of the Osaka air raid, the loss of sight in one eye, and the death of the poet's wife. Though it draws on severe experiences, the voice stays clear and leaves behind a steady strength in the act of living.

It records the shape of death in a quiet voice.

A major study that rereads Natsume Soseki as a whole, including not only his novels but also his haiku, Chinese poetry, and Literary Theory. Built on years of earlier Soseki scholarship, it was extensively revised into a single culminating work.

A long, sustained rereading of Soseki's whole literary world.