A haiku collection by Hideko Sato recognized by the New Haiku Poets Association award. As the title suggests, it carries a sense of setting out, placing lived experience and a social gaze into the brief form of haiku.

The collection inscribes signs of departure seen from everyday life into a brief poetic form.

Set in a mountain valley that evokes a village shaped by revolt, Ikki-dani brings local memory and the atmosphere of resistance into compact poetic form. Against the history of a community, it considers the weight of speaking out and remaining silent.

The valley's memory recalls quiet anger and the texture of everyday life.