My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.

It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with my family to the cosmos, that is easy, because all literature has some mystic tendency. So when we write about our family, we can link ourselves to the cosmos.