Kento Shi (Kodansha Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Japan is in a state of isolation, having suffered a great calamity and lost foreign languages, automobiles, and the Internet. The elderly are healthy even though they are over 100 years old, but their children are not strong enough to go to school. Yoshiro is worried about his frail great-grandson Mumyo. Mumyo is destined to leave Japan as a "lantern-offering messenger. Including the title story, which received a great response, this collection contains a total of five stories that can be considered the pinnacle of post-disaster literature.

大災厄に見舞われ、外来語も自動車もインターネットもなくなり鎖国状態の日本。老人は百歳を過ぎても健康だが子どもは学校に通う体力もない。義郎は身体が弱い曾孫の無名が心配でならない。無名は「献灯使」として日本から旅立つ運命に。大きな反響を呼んだ表題作など、震災後文学の頂点とも言える全5編を収録。