Wedlock / Furui Yoshikichi -- Bone meat / Kono Taeko -- Friends / Abe Kobo -- Prized possessions / Yasuoka Shotaro -- The American school / Kojima Nobuo -- Ikiru / Kurosawa Akira -- Tokyo story / Ozu Yasujiro -- To build a bridge / Takeda Taijun -- To die at the estuary / Kurahashi Yumiko -- The boy who wrote poetry / Mishima Yukio -- Seven very short stories / Kawabata Yasunari -- Three poems / Kaneko Mitsuharu -- Three poems / Sekine Hiroshi -- Two poems / Tamura Ryuichi -- Four poems / Yoshioka Minoru -- Poem / Kanai Mieko -- Peaches / Abe Akira -- The bridges of dreams / Tanizaki Junichiro -- Brief encounter / Nagai Tatsuo -- In Akiko's room / Yoshiyuki Junnosuke -- Aghwee the sky monster / Oe Kenzaburo -- American Hijiki / Nosaka Akiyuki.