A poetry collection by Masanori Matsuoka. Moving through foreign markets, food, scenes of travel, and roadside shrines, it observes human life and the movement of language from close to the ground. Its memorable colloquial voice and free notation bring bodily sensation into contact with a social gaze.

A poetry collection that follows the voices and scents encountered in travel and looks at the world from close to the ground.

The ninth tanka collection by Yuki Mitsui, a poet from Wajima, Ishikawa. Written while living in Kanazawa, it draws on daily views of the Sea of Japan and Mount Haku, tracing her relationship with Noto, the natural world, and a growing sense of personal freedom across the transition from the Heisei to Reiwa eras.

Even a single drop of water flows into the Sea of Japan, morning after morning.

Tamayura is Yuko Masaki's sixth collection of haiku, selecting about 300 poems written during the seven years after Hanehane. Named for dew, it joins the body and mind, food and drink, mountains and sea, joy and sorrow to seasonal light and the sensations of being alive.

A haiku collection that observes dew, birds and hawks, mountains and sea, and intimations of illness and aging through vivid poems rooted in everyday life.