A poetry collection that gathers family and everyday life in gentle language close to a child's gaze. Small sounds and scenes rise with nostalgia and sudden loneliness.

Household light, kitchen sounds, and the warmth of a place to return to become quiet poetic time.

A tanka collection that layers the Iraq War, memories of the Tokyo air raids, and the words of the poet's ill wife, tracing war and the tremor of personal life. It stays close to elegy while treating poetry as an index of life.

Distant war and intimate illness echo in tanka as forms of the same pain.

Takuha Obara's sixth haiku collection gathers poems mainly from 2003 to 2005. Its rooted seasonal sense is joined to a wish to meet each day with a calm heart.

Under a title wishing for calmness, place and season breathe through each haiku.