Essays on a vanishing Japan
Letters from a
Forgotten Japan
A personal act of resistance against forgetting.
Through kimono and the old texts, a record of a Japan being lost.
To remember — that is the whole of it.
Latest · Letter No.05
梅雨
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Past Letters
Letter No.00
Nagajuban, or the Layer That Shows
What Western dress has no room for — and the day an official notice struck it out.
Letter No.01
Letters Worn, Not Sent
The age when cloth was read by those who could read it
Letter No.02
Forty-Eight Browns, One Hundred Grays
On what a color used to carry, and what it carries now.
Letter No.03
挨拶
Letter No.04
麻のなかで眠った夏