A haiku work by Takeshi Mochizuki. It layers the seasonality of winter with the distance of the constellations, placing small scenes of daily life within quiet tension.

The distance of winter stars sharpens the contours of ordinary life.

A haiku work by Chiaki Watanabe. It turns to Sanya, an urban district of labor and precarious life, drawing social reality into the compressed form of haiku.

Voices from an urban margin continue to resonate quietly within short verses.