Yuriko Matsumura's fifth tanka collection turns recurring motifs such as light and darkness, glittering water, and dense forests into poems shaped by a prayer for a brighter future.

Repeated images of light and darkness become a vessel for a prayer toward the future.

A tanka collection by Gojin Kuroiwa that carries bodily sensation and memory rooted in daily life into poetry, with the familiar resonance of baseball in its title giving the collection a direct, lived texture.

A tanka collection that presses bodily memory and everyday feeling directly into fixed-form verse.