This installment of Chikuma Bunko's "contemporary manga" series is curated by Go Sasakihara and looks at the world and daily life from a "low" perspective. 

1. Kuremutsu (暮六ツ) [Kusunoki Shohei] 
2. Terajima-chou Kidan (寺島町奇譚) [Yuu Takita] 
3. Chirpy (チーコ) [Yoshiharu Tsuge] 
4. Kamen (仮面) [Shinji Nagashima] 
5. Aru Fuukei (或る風景) [Tadao Tsuge] 
6. Tokyo Goodbbye (東京グッドバイ) [Oji Suzuki] 
7. Yasashii Hito (やさしい人) [Shinichi Abe] 
8. Showa 141 Nen (昭和百四十一年) [Mizuki Shigeru] 
9. My Wife is an Acrobat (僕の妻はアクロバットをやっている) [Kuniko Tsurita] 
10. Showaru Neko (性悪猫) [Murasaki Yamada] 
11. Monologue (ものろおぐ) [Youko Kondou] 
12. Gozen 10:00 Ji no Ahiru (午前10:00の家鴨) [Fumiko Takano] 
13. Nee, Mama (ねえ、ママ) [Aoi Ikebe] 
14. Baka Kyoudai (バカ姉弟) [Tetsu Adachi] 
15. Bonbori-san (盆堀さん) [Takashi Imashiro]

A simple domestic drama about expectations, fidelity, and escape. A couple purchase a beautiful white bird with a red beak. It is said that the bird will grow attached to its owners and never fly away. While the girlfriend is working as a hostess, flirting with men for money, the boyfriend decides to draw a portrait of the new family member, and disaster strikes. 
 
(Source: Drawn & Quarterly) 
 
Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 19 (March 1966).

A man peering voyeuristically at a nude woman bending and stretching alluringly for him.
 
According to Holmberg, the English translator, this one-shot was drawn shortly after Tsurita received her diagnosis of Lupus. This short story can therefore be seen as an allegory for the inevitability of death and equally for the author's deteriorating state.

A man spends his day with a big smile on his face. Eventually, he goes out to the ocean and takes his mask off...

A collection of short autobiographical stories from 1930s and 1940s, Terajima District, Tokyo, where mangaka's family ran a tavern.

A collection of short stories:
 
1) Kirakira to Ame 
2) Zaza et Yaniku 
3) Yuuyake Carnival 
4) Karasu no Naku Yoru ni Yaniku wa 
5) Zanshou 
6) Stand Up

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