A love story that begins when a middle-aged man who has returned to his hometown meets an old classmate in a hospital shop. Carrying divorce, caregiving, illness, and everyday uncertainty, the two approach each other not with youthful heat but with the careful intimacy of people who have lived for decades.

An adult love story about two people in their fifties quietly reaching for each other on the level ground of ordinary life.

A linked mystery in which a writer asked to produce a ghost story confronts a traumatic memory and follows strange incidents set in Kagurazaka through fiction. Told with the texture of a true account, it blurs the line between supernatural dread and crime before leading the reader to a chilling truth.

Writing a ghost story summons both a sealed past and a terrifying truth.

A full-length noir about pole-and-line fishermen descended from Saikazaki in Kishu who try to start over on an isolated island in the Sea of Japan. Fishing men left behind by the times, a money-making scheme, and raw desire combine until what seems like a tale of local revival tumbles toward ruin.

A bid by pole-and-line fishermen to rise again turns into the prelude to desire-soaked ruin.

A linked story collection built around an urban legend that humanlike robots monitor bullying and abuse. It portrays small sins and forgiveness among people facing crises, holding together the fear of being watched and the solace of perhaps being watched over.

The urban-legend Kagerobo quietly illuminates the sins and forgiveness of people under pressure.

A historical novel about the stirrings of the warrior age, seen through the encounter between the Ninna-ji monk Kancho and the young Taira no Masakado in eastern Japan. Against a rough land, the heat of battle, and tension between the capital and the provinces, it brings to life a man later remembered as a rebel.

Through the fierce figure of Taira no Masakado, the novel depicts the moment the warrior age begins to emerge.