Signal and Signaless and Other Tales

Two railway signals fall in love, and an army of telegraph poles marches beneath the moon. A mountain man encounters a peddler’s unsettling magic.

Miyazawa Kenji turns the countryside and its machinery into worlds of comedy, yearning, and wonder, while two little crabs watch light and change beneath a stream.

Four distinct tales appear in the complete six-entry supplied order, retaining duplicate copies of two works. Songs preserve their verse lines, with concise explanatory notes.