Bikin Kawa No Hotori De Enkaishu Udehe Jin No Shonen Jidai / Original Title:

[Machine Translation] The traditional lifestyle of fishermen and hunter-gatherers, the abundance of nature and the harsh lifestyle, the bonds between parents and children and between siblings nurtured in this environment, school and play, the shadow of war and other modern times, and so on. This is the author's life in Udehe from the 1930s to the early 1950s, when he was a boy, and the "times" as seen through the eyes of a young boy. The first part, "Boyhood," has been rearranged from the previous translation and combined with the second part, "Youth," to form a single book.

漁労と狩猟採集の伝統的な暮らし、豊かな自然ときびしい生活、その中ではぐくまれる親子や兄弟の絆、学校と遊び、あるいは戦争をはじめとする近代の影等々。著者が少年時代を過ごした一九三〇年代から五〇年代はじめのウデヘの暮らしと、少年の目を通して見た「時代」。第一部「少年時代」の旧訳に手を加えるとともに、自伝第二部「青年時代」を合わせるかたちで全体を再構成し、一書にまとめた。