Ri-san Ikka/Umibe no Jokei

A grisly tale of a crematorium worker who burned his coworker alive in the furnace, later confessing in a letter to a boy who was accidentally given some of the wrong remains.

A detective seeks to regain his memory to locate the crook he inadvertently left to die in the mountains.

A penniless student yearns to buy an expensive book that he can’t afford until a small ill-gotten fortune falls into his lap.

A kunoichi plays a long con against a brutish samurai lord, spending years in his detention to fulfill her contract.

This tale is set at a small hot springs inn where a samurai is relaxing when he is asked to share his room. His new roommate appears to be none other than Musashi Miyamoto.

(Source: Anime News Network)

*Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 12 (August 1965).*

A suicidal samurai and his equally despondent wife discover that fate has a different plan for them.

*Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 16 (December 1965).*

An impoverished man dreams of carrying a watermelon to his friend's place, the dream ends short and he decides to tell his friend all about it.. except that too is a dream.

*Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 14 (October 1965).*

A simple domestic drama about expectations, fidelity, and escape. A couple purchase a beautiful white bird with a red beak. It is said that the bird will grow attached to its owners and never fly away. While the girlfriend is working as a hostess, flirting with men for money, the boyfriend decides to draw a portrait of the new family member, and disaster strikes.

(Source: Drawn & Quarterly)

*Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 19 (March 1966).*

Rain mysteriously falls around a particular place where a boy and his grandfather plan on going mushroom hunting the next morning...

*Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 20 (April 1966).*

A simple rural encounter is charged with sexual tension that is alluring but also fraught with danger. When a young woman happens upon a wing-shot goose, she tries to calm it then suddenly snaps its neck. Later, she befriends a young hunter and offers him shelter, but her motivations remain unclear, especially when the hunter notices a snake in the room where they’ll both be sleeping.

(Source: Drawn & Quarterly)

*Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 18 (February 1966).*

A man finds a picture scroll and tries to understand the iconography. Everyone who encounters the scroll sees something different, but the initial man thinks it's a map and he follows it as such until he eventually find the scroll's artist.

(Source: Anime News Network, edited)

*Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 17 (January 1966).*

*Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 37 (September 1967).*

*Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 31 (March 1967).*

*Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 34 (June 1967).*

"It is said that salamanders have no memory of the past because of the polluted water." This work follows a salamander waking up in a sewer with no recollection of the past, but out of place, as if they were reborn as a completely different creature. The salamander grows accustomed to their new habitat until one day when an incomprehensible object appears in the sewer.

*Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 33 (May 1967).*

A philosophical work that questions the uncertainty of human existence through the disappearance of a dog.

*Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 36 (August 1967).*

It was a terrible sandstorm. Tourists got stuck in a big hole in the desert and run out of water and food under the blazing sun. The story exposes the true nature of human beings under such extreme conditions. 

(Source: Shinchosha, translated)

*Note: Published in Gendai Comic 1970-01-08.*