“The hints in this book are my treasures—small things found through sweat and searching in the midst of a whirlwind life. I don’t wish to keep them to myself. If they can be of any use to you, I give them gladly.”
— from the Author’s Preface

Matsuura Yatarō writes about the ordinary—buying flowers on a rainy day, the ethics of a small promise kept, what it means to listen to someone with full attention. His essays are brief, two to four pages, and entirely free of prescription. There are no systems, no self-improvement programs. Only the observations of someone who has paid close attention to his own life and wants, quietly, to pass on what he has found.
Each of the two collections contains 101 such essays, personally curated by the author. They are the kind of books a reader keeps close and returns to—not read once, but lived with.