To commemorate the publication of Kozue Arakawa's first tanka collection 'Hi o Yoseru' (Bringing the Fire Closer), we will hold a talk and signing event.

I wrote about the ten-year journey, including honest struggles and setbacks. "I want to live doing what I love" "I want to start a business" — this may be especially recommended for people who feel that way. Table of Contents Preface ............................2 Working as a Company Employee ......3 Resignation ........................8 Opening a Relaxation Salon .........9 Called to Thailand .................12 Loneliness ........................14 The Importance of Life Structure ...15 The Importance of Sunlight .........16 Aiming to Become an Acupuncturist .16 Losing Sight of What I Want to Do ..18 What I Really Want to Do ..........19 Trying Again ......................20 The Process Until I Die ...........22 Present ...........................24 From Now On .......................25 Afterword ..........................26 Changes in the Salon ..............27 Number of pages: 30

Baffling signboards, surreal notices, and sights that make you do a double-take—encountered during trips and in everyday life. From over 400 “fun town-walking” photos collected across Japan over roughly six months, 123 were carefully selected. Packed with images that will make you chuckle and want to share them with someone. With approximate shooting locations and captions, you can enjoy a travel-like feeling just by flipping through.

This issue features Kameda Nakanomachi in Hakodate, where people and nature intersect! It contains three articles, including two newly written pieces. "Walking the Mysterious Path Buried in the Mountain" — A flat spot overgrown with bamboo grass. It is the trace of someone's footsteps. "The Mysterious Plot at Mirai University" — The true nature of the square "mysterious plot" left alone on the university campus. "Eating Michikusa" — An interest that began with appetite eventually connects to the land's history.

I tinker with public transportation open data and turn in-depth city walks into self-published fanzines. Twitter: https://x.com/jugesuke Website: https://books.jugesuke.net/ Booth: https://jugesuke.booth.pm/ Melonbooks: https://www.melonbooks.co.jp/circle/index.php?circle_id=135645

Marugame Seimen, which calls itself "Marugame" despite not being in Marugame City. This gathers information about the kinds of udon shops that exist in Marugame City, Kagawa Prefecture, where Marugame Seimen has no stores. Online shop: https://riding-rate.booth.pm/items/7323820

Most doujin and zine events are held on weekends and public holidays, but this summarizes methods for how people who cannot take time off on weekends or public holidays—such as those working in the service or transportation industries—can sell books they wrote themselves. Online store: https://riding-rate.booth.pm/items/7312041

A project to visit all of the Shikoku Bekkaku 20 sacred sites, which are even more rugged than the Shikoku 88 temples, using public transportation. It can also serve as a reference for how to walk to temples located deep in the mountains.