A poetry collection that quietly looks at life, death, and the flow of time while using everyday language with richness. Each poem carries the weight of a long story and joins the others with that same density.

Everyday words take shape as a long passage of time.

A critical study that rereads Ito Shizuo’s wartime poetry in relation to its historical moment. It traces the tension between lyric poetry and the wartime order while bringing overlooked poems into view.

A fresh reading of lyricism under wartime conditions.