This is a selected collection of my own tanka from 2016 onward. Rather than a connected series, I wanted each poem to be read on its own, so the layout places 1–2 poems per page. There is also a special edition with foil stamping on the cover. The special edition's wholesale price is 2000 yen.

Today is the anniversary of the end of the war. This summer we held several events about books dealing with "Japan during the time of war." It was partly by chance that they took place in summer, but I think it's because we feel we should do something in response to Japan's current situation. I believe we must not let the present become a "pre-war" period. This afternoon I held two events. From 2:00 PM there was a book launch talk for Noran Nijino's new work, "Akari no Tomoru Hello." We invited guests from Kyoto and Tokyo to read passages from the text. I think the atmosphere was completely different from the talk we held recently at Nagoya City Kita Library. Many participants came from far away; Noran has fans across the country, and it was a very good occasion for everyone to meet and interact. From 6:00 PM there was a talk to commemorate the publication of the Tokai Tanka Anthology 2026, "Seeds of Song." A little over twenty people attended, including those who contributed to the anthology and those who did not this time, and everyone listened intently to the critiques by the anthology's editors, Satsuki Suzuki and Bunchō Nagai, and the guest commentator, Professor Hiroyuki Ogiwara.

A small book about sashiire (gifts/treats) at doujinshi sales events.

An anthology of short stories themed around love and combat between men and women. Contributions by Nami Minato and Saki Higashi.

Circle participation (one table) ¥2500 An event for showing off and selling each person's original works. I don't expect this to be a profitable event. Be kind to one another. We're all different and all wonderful! It is primarily intended for doujinshi and zines, but goods are also allowed. Novels, essays, poetry collections, comics, or illustrations with commentary are all welcome. Commercially distributed books may be brought as well, but please obtain permission from publishers yourself. This event starts with participants arranging tables and chairs along the walls themselves and ends with returning the room to its original conference layout. It is not a fully prepared event where the venue is set up in advance. Please be aware of this. One table equals one booth. Up to three chairs may be used. You may split one booth among multiple people. Adult content is allowed as long as there are no explicit sexual expressions on the cover. If you're concerned, please get in touch. The location is Small Meeting Room 1004 at Winc Aichi. It is accessible from Nagoya Station via an underground passage. Please note there is one set of stairs on the underground route. There are only five slots for courier delivery, so please plan on carrying items in by hand. Outbound shipments can be sent from the baggage office on the 18th floor. See the PDF below for details. https://www.winc-aichi.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/tenimotsuazukari.pdf

I debuted as a novelist in February 2026 with "Bellātor Mēchanicus Caeruleīs Oculīs - Tenkū no Me no Kikai Ningyō -" from Nanairo-sha's alt blue novels. As a tanka poet, I mainly take part in sales events such as X and the Bungaku Flea Market. I welcome all kinds of invitations. For booth participation at doujinshi events, please contact me at least two months in advance.

Today was a public holiday, so the shop was closed. It happened that Jizō-san, a member of Zindies, was coming to Nagoya, so I decided to meet up at the venue of the ZINE event “イマZINE” held at Wink Aichi. 　“Ima ZINE,” held for the first time this year, seemed to be run so smoothly that you wouldn't think it was the first time, since the people who organize the book events in Endonji and everyone from 美鶴堂 were staffing it. 　Many ZINE creators who work with our shop also had booths, so I went to say hello. There were, of course, many first-time visitors, and we walked around the venue several times, checking each booth to see if there were any interesting ZINEs.

This week my work days and the shop's closed days fell one after another, so I'll only be working at the store today and tomorrow — just two days. Since it's the Obon holiday it feels a little wasteful, but you have to rest when you can. At my age I shouldn't overdo things. What makes me feel it's a shame to take time off is less the lost sales than not being able to talk with customers. At this time of year some people even come from outside Nagoya or from other parts of Aichi Prefecture, so it's disappointing not to be able to meet those visitors. Today two people came in who I had met at the ZINE event “Ima ZINE” held at Wink Aichi this past Tuesday the 11th: one exhibitor I met there, and a ZINE creator who had been exhibiting but whom I hadn't met yet. One is Nando Nezumi, who published a sento (public bath) book titled 『そっと無言で湯につかる』 (Sotto Mugon de Yu ni Tsukaru). I bought five copies. Nando Nezumi has apparently researched Nagoya's chindonya (traditional street advertisement performers), and I'd love to see a ZINE about that too. The other is an artist who makes photo books and diary ZINEs; they didn't have any copies on hand today, so they'll bring them later. After that, a man from a family who had been at the café bought a book, and when I spoke with him he said he'd wanted to visit our shop once. He was delighted and said it's nice to have a bookstore that only sells books about Nagoya. He and his wife apparently go on sento tours and visit sites related to Akira Toriyama. Mr. Muramatsu from Nakamura Library dropped by. He said today is his day off. He asked if I would become a shelf curator for the "Hitohako Library" project that Nakamura Library is working on! The shelf curator doesn't just select books (about ten); it seems a lecture is also included. Sometime in the latter half of this fiscal year I'll likely do a selection and a talk at Nakamura Library. I'll let you know when it's decided. For the selection I'm thinking something like "bookstore + Hon'ya Taisho (Booksellers' Award) + library + ZINE." They'll have to buy my ZINE too.

　Yesterday I went to ImaZINE held in Nagoya with Fujisaka from NAgoya BOOK CENTER. We went casually as attendees to look around, not as exhibitors. I had also been to ZINE Station that was held in Kyoto a little while ago; both were first-time events and each room felt about the same size. (ImaZINE had two rooms, so there were roughly twice as many exhibitors.) 　Sugita from Be Nice, a publisher/mobile-bookstore(?) style group I've known for a while, was also exhibiting; I bought a ZINE that felt like "Be Nice's exhibition history" while saying hello. I was able to talk with Ruko, who is a labor enthusiast, and Saki Shiori (team!) who was next to her, and it was nice to chat with several people who are close to Fujisaka. 　Before going to ImaZINE I actually visited Iruka Shorin near my parents' home. They knew about Librize and had several ZINEs. I found a "delusion ZINE" by someone called Yumetsuna interesting and tried to buy it, but they told me, "They're exhibiting at ImaZINE today too—please buy it there," so I found it at ImaZINE and got it safely. Iruka Shorin later registered with Zindies, so please try contacting the author as well. 　After ImaZINE we took the subway to Nakamura Park and had a meal with Fujisaka and others. We gathered at "Kushikatsu Taikō", where the yakitori and skewers are delicious, chatted a lot about ZINEs and libraries, and then broke up. 　I was pretty exhausted, but talking with people is fun. Hearing and sharing various ideas made me think that this is how things start to move. 　My next visit to Nagoya is on 9/5. I'll attend an event for Iida Kazufumi's new book, "An Introduction to 'Relaxed Reading' for 90% of Japanese." I'm really looking forward to it.

I meant to write this in the diary earlier, but the other day manga artist Megumi Tsuji visited the shop. Actually, she had come about a month ago while I was away, so we couldn't meet then. 　Ms. Tsuji has just released Volume 1 of 'Nokorimono ni wa Meshi ga Aru' with Akita Shoten, and her previous visit seemed to have been partly for coverage related to that serialization. 　'Nokorimono ni wa Meshi ga Aru' is a story set after the end of the Pacific War: a young man repatriated from Manchuria to his hometown of Nagoya grows through food in Nagoya's black market (apparently behind the station). 　Ms. Tsuji, who was born in Mie Prefecture and is still very young, must find it really difficult to depict the war and the black market. She told me that the photographs in 'Nagoya Station West Time Trip' published by Fubaisha that we have in our shop were very helpful, so I asked, 'Shall we try to meet the book's author Hayashi-sensei? Also, people who study the Nakamura yūkaku would know a lot about research from that era, so why not join the yūkaku lecture we hold at the shop?' — and I more or less pushed her into it. 　Since yesterday we've been exchanging messages on social media, and we decided to hold a talk event for 'Nokorimono ni wa Meshi ga Aru' after the second Nakamura yūkaku lecture in November, inviting Hayashi-sensei to speak about the history of the station-west area and the black market. I think we might be able to make a flyer around the week after next (it's hard to get cover images right now because the publisher is inactive during the Obon holiday).

This is the second tanka collection. Compared with the first volume, the choice of words here is more self-aware. It gazes upon the same light, drifting everyday life as ever.

There was an event today starting at 2:00 PM, and the speaker and the MC were scheduled to meet at 1:00 PM at the café "River", so I came to work before 12:00, an hour earlier. The forecast had said cloudy, but the sun was still strong and the second-floor gallery where the event was held looked like it would trap heat. Today's event was a lecture by Mr. Makoto Kumagai, author of "The Birth of Poet Noriko Ibaraki", which was recently published by Fubai-sha. We expected just under twenty attendees, but sign-ups increased during the last week and we ended up with 26 people. That left the venue almost full, and the back seats (near the windows) must have been quite hot. I kept thinking we should stop holding daytime events in midsummer. I'm worried because on the 15th next week there's another daytime talk by Nijino Noran. Since it was a Saturday afternoon, customers kept coming into the shop — even for a small bookstore like ours — and I couldn't just leave them and go up to the second-floor gallery to listen to the lecture. I didn't want to miss the chance to talk with customers, so in the end I only gave a brief greeting at the start of the lecture and couldn't hear the content at all. I had organized the event because I wanted to hear it myself, so it's really disappointing. Still, it was good that the number of participants exceeded expectations. One thing that surprised me was that the author's books, including signed copies, sold well (about ten copies) — although that doesn't mean everyone bought one. These days, even at author events, books often don't sell as well as expected; after paying a participation fee, people may be reluctant to spend extra on books. Meanwhile, other books by Noriko Ibaraki (and related titles) hardly sold at all. Maybe I should have asked the speaker to mention recommended poetry collections and related books during the talk. This year is the 100th anniversary of Noriko Ibaraki's birth, so I want to make sure we have them properly in stock. I'm looking forward to the diary book that didn't arrive in time. By the way, there are two signed copies of Mr. Kumagai's book in stock. Come to think of it, I realized we hadn't stocked any books by Nankichi Niimi — what a shock! I ordered a few picture books and story collections.

ImaZINE 🗓8/11 (Tue, national holiday) ⏱ 11:00~16:00 📍Winc Aichi 5F Booth: ｢ろばぱか｣ Small Hall 1 C-2 ･Free admission New release ✨️ 「Friend Pochette and Crochet Bag」800 yen I suddenly got into crocheting. Includes introductions to the pieces I made and essays about crocheting. "Friends" = stuffed toys 🧸 "Poetry Collection: Days, Aimless Walks" This is the second tanka collection. Compared with the first volume, I've chosen words more deliberately. Still gazing at the same dreamy, floaty everyday life. /////////// In addition to the above, I'll bring three previously published books and a free paper. If you're nearby, please feel free to stop by 🦙

What does a plushie mean to you? These days, "nuikatsu" has become common, but everyone enjoys it in their own way. This zine introduces ways of interacting with plushies, accompanied by illustrations.

I suddenly became obsessed with crocheting. It was for my cute "otomodachi" — my stuffed friends. This zine introduces my ever-growing collection of otomodachi pochettes and the bags I crocheted while watching videos. It also includes what got me into crocheting and a few essays. ("おともだち" = stuffed toys)

This is an event for beginners interested in tanka and tanka gatherings. We will each compose a tanka on the theme "Library / Librarian" and bring it to the meeting. On the day, everyone will anonymously share the tanka they wrote and give comments and impressions. Fee: 500 JPY (includes self-service café) Capacity: 6 people What to bring: Writing utensils Venue: Zoroku Kohan 〒460-0017 Room 24, 2F, Flower Center North Bldg., 1-9-13 Matsubara, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 460-0017, Japan 8-minute walk from Osu Kannon Station 16-minute walk from Kamimaezu Station Bicycle parking available If you are coming by car, please use nearby coin-operated parking lots. How to apply: Please sign up via Zindies first. By September 10, compose one tanka on the theme "Library / Librarian" and send it to the address below. ⚫︎Submission destination (where to send your tanka): Organizer Koji Fujisaka's X account DM (https://x.com/kojifuji) ※Has been writing tanka for 10 months. ⚫︎Submission deadline: September 10 You do not need to include the words "library" or "libr ary" in your tanka as long as it fits the theme. We aim to make this a fun meeting where beginners can enjoy tanka. We look forward to your participation.

We get questions about Zindies fairly often. Most of them lead to ideas for improving the service, and we're grateful for that. When writing answers to those questions, I thought it would be better to make them available as Q&A for anyone to see, rather than replying only to the person who asked. note has a feature called '質問箱' (question box). At first I considered using that name for Zindies as well, but the meaning is different: on note creators or shops receive questions anonymously, whereas on Zindies people send questions to the operations team. Creators and shops also sometimes send requests like "I want this," so I decided to name it 'おたずねBOX'. A section has been added to creators' and shops' management pages where they can submit questions. Besides responding to the person who asked, the operations team can edit the question and answer before publishing them. Until now most inquiries came by email, but that keeps the exchange completely private. Useful information is better shared with everyone. A list is available at https://zindies.co/faq, and creators and shops can submit an 'おたずね' from the link there without returning to their management page, so please feel free to use it.

ZINE Festival Wakayama is a zine sales event to be held on Monday, March 22, 2027 (national holiday) at the Wakayama Big Ai Exhibition Hall. Open 11:00–16:00, admission 500 yen. The event expects around 80 exhibitors and includes information for exhibitors such as booth specifications, participation fees, rules for delivery and sales, and the possibility of photography.