Sunadokei is one of Haruo Umezaki's representative postwar novels and received the Shinchosha Literary Award. Its hourglass image links the passage of time with inner instability, rendering postwar life and anxiety in a finely observed style.

A Shinchosha Literary Award-winning work by Haruo Umezaki that observes passing time and the movement of the human mind.

A critical study in which Kenkichi Yamamoto traces Matsuo Basho's life and poetry, closely reading representative haiku and examining the development of Basho's haikai. It ranges from Basho's early Danrin period through Oku no Hosomichi and his late works.

The work reads Basho's poems and journeys to follow the deepening of his haikai spirit.