An autobiographical youth novel in which Masahiko Shimada addresses his younger self as you and recounts his beginnings as a writer, loneliness, mistakes, and frictions with the literary world. It exposes the shame and folly behind a striking debut and tells how a writer's life turns into story.

A young writer once treated as a heretic turns his folly and shame into narrative.

A two-person play about middle-aged withdrawal and aging parents, seen through the research of a female university student who hopes to become a documentary filmmaker. While grounded in a social issue, it brings to the stage the fragility of perception and memory and the painful fact of lives that go on for too long.

Life is too long for an easy happy ending.

A collection of essays in which a lifelong reader writes lightly about the final chapter of his relationship with books as aging weakens eyesight and memory and changes his bond with his library. Referring to figures such as Shunsuke Tsurumi, Aya Koda, and Atsuko Suga, it captures the pleasures of reading visible only after a long life with books.

Because reading may soon become impossible, it becomes a fresh joy all over again.

A critical biography that follows the life and work of Tatsuhiko Shibusawa through unpublished materials and testimony from people connected to him. From the Sade trial, Gendai Shicho-sha, and the magazine Blood and Roses to his relationships with Sumiko Yagawa and Ryuko, it traces the course of life and creation behind the intellectual mask.

A substantial biography that traces the intellect and everyday life of the voyager Tatsuhiko Shibusawa through documents and testimony.

Satoko Kawano's sixth tanka collection, published as part of the Karin series. Written in the language of contemporary tanka, it receives encounters with others and the world through precise, attentive poems. The book brings together everyday signs, bodily perception, and a social gaze, quietly inviting readers into its poetic space.

Behind the title's idea of welcome, the sensations of living in the present crystallize in the vessel of tanka.

A critical study that rereads Michel Leiris at the intersection of literature, art, and autobiography. Tracing his relationships with Masson, Giacometti, Picasso, Bacon, Duchamp, and others, it examines how the theme of portraiture is varied across Leiris's movement between text and image.

A journey through Leiris's portraits becomes a mirror in which twentieth-century French literature and art reflect one another.