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This paper considered a characteristic of the other world and the meaning to see in Sakiyama's fictions mainly on a short story announced intermittently from 2006 to 2013. “SUIZYOŌUKAN” with the opportunity when the name of Sakiyama is known to the central literary world. She published the anthology of total four to date afterwards. Sakiyama's theme was ‘island’ and ‘darkness’ from the first anthology. However, Sakiyama's fictions shows a new change after the third anthology. I consider the change to be a thing by imagination of the other world and consider a concrete aspect and characteristic of the other world through the series of Kuja. In addition, I thought about how a crossing the border and interchange to the other world intersected a problem of the present of Okinawa. The other world in the Sakiyama's fictions shows an aspect different from fear or the yearning to the world where the human ingenuity and the experience are exceeded. A voice invades the space of the narrator suddenly. He is invited to the voice, and he goes over the everyday border without a physical shock naturally when he moves to another space. In the fiction, it may be said that the other world is distributed unevenly in daily life. The series of Kuja irradiates contemporary history of Okinawa through interchange with the other world again. As for the series of Kuja, a focus is put to women who lived in Kuja in particular. The other world is a literal method to shape of the 'island' and 'darkness' for Sakiyama. And it was a viewpoint of the gender of Sakiyama to have been able to confirm in the process. It can be said that the other world is Sakiyama depict be a criticism of the violent representations to Okinawa as well as a criticism of the Domination of male power structure, which is symbolized as violent system of military base and the state and violence of war.