The house of rain may or may not come across a shower, but the voyage will always beckon you to the forbidden lake, urging you to undertake a surreptitious journey to the land of nowhere, leaving your beloved garden behind. Is it not the moment you confront the inauspicious time and, under the dark new moon, holding the book with your pale, melancholy hands, read the last dialogue?

• Front Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• About the Poet
• About the Translator
• My Tanka Experience
• In the Forbiden Lake
• A Horse
• The Amoeboid Sun
• The Crimson, Torn Letter
• At the Lazy Midnight
• Stepping into the Nowhere
• At the Source of the Blue Path
• Mumblings
• In the Trust of the Neelkantho
• In the Hymns of the Darkness
• The Infirm Moon
• On the Rigid Fossil
• The Blue Ashes
• The Blue Lattice
• The Blue Cloth in the Left Hand
• The Magical Deception
• The Blue Trader
• Rows of Montage
• The Shadow of Water
• In the Dark Lake
• The Texture of the Night
• The Corpse of the White Boat
• The Blue Door
• The House of Rain
• The Boy of the Light
• The Powdered Air
• On the Aquatic Container
• The Prow Manifest with Blue
• The Chandelier
• Seeds of the Grass
• In the Distant Galaxy
• Breaking the Stairs in the Void
• Bluish Horses
• Yellow Memories
• Water Like Melodies
• In the Bluish Castle
• In the Fire without a Destination
• Dearer Signs
• The Green Language
• At the Parting Night
• The Amazing Arrow
• The Land of the Wood
• The Vulnerable Magician
• In the Blue City
• In the Sun of the Dungeon
• In the Winging Immersion
• In the Blue Afternoon
• On the Naked Stone
• The Arrangement of Death
• Passing the Scale
• In the Violet School