“Wabash-gawa no Asa” is a short-to-medium-length story published in “Shosetsu Gendai” as a winner of the Shosetsu Gendai Newcomer Award. With a title that evokes the Wabash River of the American Midwest, it can be read as a story of solitude and departure set against the morning landscape of a foreign place.

A morning on a distant river reflects solitude and the beginning of new time.