A large-scale crime novel centered on remnants of the Yokota Shoji affair, evoking one of postwar Japan's major fraud scandals. It follows a man unable to escape deception as desire, violence, and schemes pull him into the darkness running from late Showa into Heisei Japan.

The life of a man who can survive only by deceiving others exposes the desires of modern Japan.

A historical novel about the people called warabe, despised in the Heian period under names such as oni and tsuchigumo. Born in Echigo, Ogyomaru carries the loss of his father and homeland and, through many encounters, heads toward a battle for a world where people can live together.

A prayer-like story of the despised joining hands in search of a world where they can live.

The second linked ghost-story collection in which the repairman Obana responds to hauntings left in old houses and places through acts of maintenance. Set in townhouses, shrine-side paths, old homes, and attics, the stories mingle fear, sorrow, and tenderness.

Rather than exorcising hauntings, the stories ease human distress by repairing the places people inhabit.

A sweeping historical novel centered on Yayomanekuf, an Ainu born in Sakhalin, and Bronislaw Pilsudski, sent there as a convict under Russian imperial pressure. It depicts lives shaken by nation and civilization, as the heat of preserving homeland and culture crosses eras.

The anguish over stolen land and culture turns into the heat people need in order to live.

A crime novel centered on a man called Blue, born in the first year of the Heisei era and dead at its close. Through an unsolved case, a murder in a housing complex, and the fractures of society, it links one life to the darker currents of an era marked by abuse, poverty, prejudice, and isolation.

A socially conscious mystery that condenses the light and darkness of the Heisei era into one man's life and death.