Imaginative, elegant, moving, universal... Kaneko Misuzu's poetry is the celebration of the life of big and small. Deeply knowledgeable about the human heart, Misuzu grasps with revealing simplicity the need for empathy and understanding between beings and illuminates that path sometimes luminous, sometimes dark, and always fleeting, that we all share and that we call life. The work of Kaneko Misuzu is born from a natural sympathy for all animate and non-animate beings that inhabit our universe. During his brief and tragic life, Misuzu found in poetry the way to express a unique and universal voice capable of moving people of any time and place. Forgotten for decades, his work was lost after the bombings that devastated Tokyo during World War II.