A novel by Yasuko Kigi. With genealogy in the title, it views an individual life within family memory and the flow of history.

Tracing a family line leads to a view of individual solitude and choice.

A diary work in which Yuriko Takeda records life at a mountain cottage near Mount Fuji with her husband, Taijun Takeda. Family, dogs, meals, weather, and the nearness of death are observed closely, turning details of daily life into powerful literary time.

The details of life at the foot of Mount Fuji quietly become literature before the reader.