In this memoir, Kyuro Oda, founder of Shichosha and creator of the magazine Gendai Shi Techo, retraces his encounters with the poets, editors, and publishers who sustained Japan's postwar poetry world. Combining personal memory with documentary material, he portrays the formation of postwar poetry and the human relationships surrounding it from the perspective of someone who witnessed the scene firsthand.

A memoir that conveys the living presence of those who sustained postwar poetry and the passion of publishers devoted to it.

This biography traces the life of anthropologist Ryuzo Torii. It follows his journeys across East Asia with his family after leaving Tokyo Imperial University, portraying a fieldworker who sought the origins of Japanese culture and its deeper historical layers.

A biography of the anthropologist who kept travelling across East Asia in search of the origins of Japanese culture.