The House of the Lost on the Cape
is a Japanese novel written by Sachiko Kashiwaba. It was initially serialized in the Iwate Nippo daily newspaper from May 10, 2014, to July 4, 2015. Kodansha later published the novel in print with cover art by Yukiko Saito on September 11, 2015. An anime film adaptation by David Production premiered in Japan on August 27, 2021. The anime is part of the "Zutto Ōen Project 2011 + 10...", commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The English translation of the book was published by Restless Books in September 2023 and translated by award-winning translator Avery Fischer Udagawa. On the depiction of tragedy and hope within the story, Udagawa says, "I believe young people can all benefit from these portraits of hanging on when hope is in extremely short supply." Characters Synposis Yui and Hiyori have lost their families and are picked up by the elderly and kind Kiwa from a protective shelter after a devastating tsunami catastrophy. Kiwa becomes their adoptive grandmother. They move into a large, old house located behind a forest on a cape. There the zashiki warashi takes care of them. Kiwa is in touch with a number of kindly kappa who