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.

Tokyo, Japan
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