A work of fiction by Sanetoshi Mihara. Its title, Toan, suggests taking shelter in temporary ease, and it is recorded as a fiction winner of the South Japan Literary Award.

Sanetoshi Mihara's South Japan Literary Award-winning work, bearing a title that suggests temporary ease.

This poetry collection by Kazuo Susumu, a poet from Amami, layers island memory with the sensations of daily life. It does not treat the everyday as merely peaceful, but looks into the strangeness within familiar life through local history, the sound of dialect, and the presence of people placed in vulnerable positions.

The eye fixed on daily life reaches into island memory and the sound of dialect.