NABC Store Manager's Diary — October 2, 2026

Today was another fine day. The sky feels high, but the late-summer heat continues. I came in at 1:00 PM as usual and checked the sales; a ZINE had sold in the morning! I'm very grateful. A zine creator who makes picture books — someone I met at last month's ZINE event at Kusamura Books — visited the shop. I had an appointment email from them, but I missed it; I'm sorry about that. We talked a lot about ZINEs. Next time she'll bring two of her works so I can purchase them for the store. A woman who had visited about a month ago also came in. She is interested in the yūkaku, and we talked at length again. She bought a ZINE as well. I've been reading related materials recently, so I was glad I could talk in more detail than last time. She wasn't able to attend the recent Nakamura Yūkaku (Nakamura red‑light district) lecture, so I recommended the second session in November, but unfortunately it's already fully booked. From 7:00 PM there was a tanka reading group. The featured book was Shuta Fujii's "Perspective." Remarkably, Fujii himself came all the way to Nagoya to participate. Thank you very much.