Table of contents : Contents Preface Introduction Poetry A Verse from “Translations of Old Okinawan Poems” My Last Letter Entering the Harbor of a Southern Island Dead Body From The Days of My Youth A Conversation Shell-shocked Island Dream Revelations Fiction Officer Ukuma Memoirs of a Declining Ryukyuan Woman In Defense of “Memoirs of a Declining Ryukyuan Woman” Mr. Saito- of Heaven Building Dark Flowers Turtleback Tombs Bones The Silver Motorcycle Love Letter from L.A. Love Suicide at Kamaara Will o’ the Wisp Droplets Fortunes by the Sea Translators Sources for Original Texts