A thirty-tanka sequence by Akira Nakayama that won the Tanka Kenkyu Newcomer Award. It shows the sharp sensibility that would lead into early New Wave tanka, combining fantastical images, musical and foreign atmospheres, and the solitude and tension of a young speaker within the compact form.

A tanka sequence that became Akira Nakayama's point of departure, where fantasy intersects with an uneasy sense of the times.