"Millennium Tree" Hiroshi Ogiwara Price: ¥638 #HiroshiOgiwara #Books #BOOK #Bunko #Literature #Novel A provincial governor traveling east is attacked, and he and his family flee into the mountains. Then, a kusunoki seed falls... Masaya, a junior high school student who is bullied, under a giant tree... "Sprout." Kindergarteners find a glass bottle while trying to bury a time capsule under a tree. The tragedy of war hidden within it, "The Promise in a Bottle." A granddaughter reads a letter her grandmother received during the war... "Grandma's Stone Steps." Dramas of people and trees, crossing time periods, intersect, and the poignancy overwhelms the heart in this collection of linked short stories.