A collection that depicts the memories of a farm woman who lived amid harsh nature and poverty in the Abukuma foothills. Sei Yoshino’s late-starting literature carries a powerful sense of lived life.

From the depths of poverty, words rooted in the soil rise up.

Miho Shimao’s work draws on her memories of wartime and daily life in the Amami islands. Personal and local history overlap, giving it a force befitting the Tamura Toshiko Prize.

Seaside life and memories of war are joined in one woman’s voice.