Shijisho is the fifth haiku collection by Jumio Yamaue. Rooted in the lineage of Shuoshi Mizuhara and Sodo Yamaguchi, it turns seasonal change and the passage of aging into haiku marked by clarity, lightness, and shadow.

A haiku collection where a longing for life and a quiet shadow breathe beneath transparent seasonal words.

Kashin is a haiku collection by Tsuneko Kikuchi. Issued in the Bairi Haiku Selection series, it carefully gathers everyday scenes and seasonal presences, reflecting a firm sensibility within quiet language.

With the freshness of morning flowers, this collection reconnects daily time to the language of the seasons.

Okibi is a tanka collection by Fumihiro Oshima. It sets heightened emotions from work and daily life within a restrained form, portraying a will that keeps burning beneath a calm surface.

A tanka collection that preserves the heat of feelings that rise even as they are being calmed.

Ryuriden is a tanka collection by Yu Naruse. Taking wandering and displacement as its central feeling, it renders personal memory and the atmosphere of an era through a sequence of composed tanka.

Carrying a sense of wandering, the book moves memory and landscape into the order of tanka.

Sekai Chunen Kaigi is a poetry collection by Kosuke Yotsumoto. It draws on the sensibility of a mobile businessperson, cities, media, family, and world affairs, surveying the world from the vantage point of middle age.

From the midst of everyday life and global events, the book launches a new adventure in contemporary poetry.

Kinsei Chuki no Kamigata Haidan is a study of early modern haikai by Ryoko Fukasawa. It examines the Kyoto and Osaka haikai circles after Basho and before the revival of the Basho style, focusing on figures such as Matsuki Tantan and changes in poetic style.

The book illuminates how Edo's share-style haikai changed in Kamigata through the haikai circles of Kyoto and Osaka.

Haiku no Modan is a work of haiku criticism by Masaru Nihei. It reads changes in modern haiku expression through the tension between modernist sensibility and fixed form, considering how haiku acquired modernity.

A critical collection that asks what happened to haiku expression from the perspective of the modern.

Shimanchu nu Takara is a song by BEGIN. Inspired by writings from junior high school students on Ishigaki Island, it asks how much people raised on an island truly know of its songs, language, and memories.

A signature song that hands the desire to know one's home songs on to the island's future.