[Machine Translation] The author's many years of travel and exploration have brought him one drop of deep and deep sorrow after another. This collection of short stories, which depicts the themes of alcohol, food, opium, and fish, from fertility to misery in a style of exquisite clarity, has not lost its luster even 20 years after the author's death. This collection contains six stories, including "Tama, Crusher," which won the Kawabata Yasunari Prize for Literature.