Table of Contents:
  • Wedlock / Furui Yoshikichi
  • Bone meat / Kōno Taeko
  • Friends / Abe Kōbō
  • Prized possessions / Yasuoka Shōtarō
  • The American school / Kojima Nobuo
  • Ikiru / Kurosawa Akira
  • Tokyo story / Ozu Yasujirō
  • To build a bridge / Takeda Taijun
  • To die at the estuary / Kurahashi Yumiko
  • The boy who wrote poetry / Mishima Yukio
  • Seven very short stories. The pomegranate ; The camellia ; The plum ; The jay ; Summer and winter ; The bamboo leaves ; The cereus / Kawabata Yasunari
  • Three poems. Song of loneliness ; The sun ; The receiver / Kaneko Mitsuharu
  • Three poems. Abe Sada ; The golden pavilion ; Dream Island / Sekine Hiroshi
  • Two poems. The man with a green face ; Human house / Tamura Ryūichi
  • Four poems. Still life ; Still life ; Paul Klee's dining table ; Nude woman / Yoshioka Minoru
  • Poem. The house of Madam Juju / Kanai Mieko
  • Peaches / Abe Akira
  • The bridge of dreams / Tanizaki Junichirō
  • Brief encounter / Nagai Tatsuo
  • In Akiko's room / Yoshiyuki Junnosuke
  • Aghwee the sky monster / Ōe Kenzaburō
  • American hijiki / Nosaka Akiyuki.