Kesa no Hi ni is a poetry collection by Kazue Shinkawa that contemplates the sea, life and death, memories of war, and light in everyday life. It also includes poetic variations responding to haiku and received the poetry division of the 13th Shika Bungakukan Prize.

A poetry collection that considers the distance between life and death through the sea and everyday light.

In Midori Narikeri, Masako Tsukiji writes tanka rooted in the fields and village life of Kumamoto, addressing aging, memory, the shadow of war, and the plants and birds that sustain life. Attentive to the particulars of everyday nature, the collection quietly asks where a life is headed.

A tanka collection that listens for the presence of plants and birds while contemplating an aging self and the time of a particular place.

Autumn is a haiku collection by Kawasaki Tenkō, shaped by his commitment to shasei-inspired seasonal poetry and by memories of war. Its clear, poised verses draw on a deep engagement with the Japanese classics to explore changing seasons and human feeling.

A haiku collection that quietly joins the changing seasons to a classical sensibility and a poetic life shaped by the postwar years.