VOL.1 • JAPAN
MEET THIRTEEN VOICES SHAPING CULTURE THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION
"NOT A STRAIGHT LINE IN SIGHT"
Medium: Contemporary Art
Ochiai instructs us to feel before we analyze. Through waves of distortion and memory, perception turns into a playground of emotion.
"SHADOW MOVEMENT"
Medium: Contemporary Butoh
In the wake of postwar Japan, Butoh became more than a dance—it became a reckoning. Born from rupture and reinvention, Kana Kitty confronts the raw edges of human emotion.
"MOMENTS WITHOUT SCRIPT"
Medium: Photography
For Masatoshi, photography is a dialogue—between people, culture, and clothing. His work transforms careful planning and instinctive improvisation into visual narratives full of quiet intensity.
"THE AESTHETIC ENGINE"
Medium: Contemporary Art
Cars are Kei’s vehicle—pun intended—for exploring memory, identity, and rebellion. Through CarService, he drives the worlds of lowriders and Japanese street racing into immersive, living narratives.
"CREATING MORE WITH LESS"
Medium: Ikebana
Ozono describes his studio as a place where silence becomes its own teacher, nudging him toward choices he might otherwise overlook.
"MUSHIN IN MOTION"
Medium: Callligraphy
Through shodō, Erina Takahashi transforms calligraphy into an intimate encounter, where movement, silence, and intuition meet—reaching beyond written language.
"VOICE AS LANDSCAPE"
Medium: Music Production
Hosoi embraces impermanence, creating compositions that resist repetition and invite deep listening. Her process begins with breath and ends in surrender, offering moments that exist only once, then vanish.
"WHERE THE LIGHT FRACTURES"
Medium: Edo Kiriko
In the hands of a master glass cutter, Soichiro Sekibae, Edo Kiriko becomes more than tradition, it becomes transformation.
"MOLECULES & MATTER"
Medium: Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
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"POST MERIDIEM"
Medium: Audiophile
In a world consumed by digital distractions, PM Sounds offers a rare pause. A reminder of richness found in presence, community, and sound.
"MUZZLED GRACE"
Medium: Fine Art
Yusuke Kiriki explores the space between memory, emotion, and the unspoken, blending figuration and abstraction to reveal quiet, tender figures.
"FORM & MEMORY"
Medium: Tomohiro Naito
With Naito & JapanCraft21, Machiya may rise again—where craft, culture, and the city’s soul converge. No longer relics of the past, they are invitations to inhabit tradition, restoring Kyoto’s architecture as a living memory of the city.
"WHERE YOUR MATCHA GROWS"
Medium: Matcha Farmer
In Wazuka, tea is more than cultivation—it is inheritance. Shaped by mist, soil, and centuries of devotion, the land remains in the care of families who continue a craft passed down.