I'll let you know the details regarding delivery rules due to new American tariffs ; Update on September 1st 2025As I announced on August 30th, due to changes in tariffs imposed by the US governmen...

In the opening scene of Wong Kar Wai's 1990 film "Days of Being Wild," Leslie Cheung asks Maggie Cheung to "look at my watch with me for one minute," and then tells her, "This minute is an eternity...

We live in an age where each person has a device that connects them to the world in the palm of their hand, and where all consultations may be handled by AI. In such an age, can a "picture" printed...

Happy New Year to all collectors,,,Today I'd like to talk a little about the paper I use. Last year, especially towards the end of the year, I experimented with various types of washi paper to expr...

Dear Print Collectors,There's a famous line from the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's 'Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There': It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same p...

English is not my native language, but a language for expressing my thoughts. I am grateful to all of you for reading my rather clumsy expressions every time. For me, reading English directly is ac...

Dear Collectors,While reading Haruki Murakami's early masterpiece, "Dance, Dance, Dance,'' I felt that one scene reminded me of Fishgerald's "The Great Gatsby.'' I felt that he was paying homage to...

Dear Collectors,While I use photography as a medium, I am end up being like a butcher, selling slices of my own inner world to you, rather than the real world. Or, I simply use my lens to capt...

Dear collectors,In the end, my intention may not be to photograph still lifes, but to use transparent motifs as a catalyst for "supplementing light." Lately, I feel that what's important isn't the ...

Dear all print lovers,Ever since I started printing using Photogravure, my interest in paper has never waned, regardless of the type. I was a photographer rather than a traditional intaglio pr...

Bottles and Glassware No.7 “MO” paper versionThe MO paper I mentioned before is a special paper to me and not something I can consume casually. This was a watercolor and printmaking paper that was ...

Dear Collectors in the United States,As you may know, starting Friday, August 29th, "de minimis duty-free" deliveries will be suspended in principle, and Japan Post's EMS delivery service to the Un...

The weather is getting more and more severe every year. The high temperatures in summer are unbearable. In the evening, when the temperature had dropped a little, I took still life photos in a larg...

I used so called MO’ paper that I came across by chance. This was watercolor paper I received from an old artist. She said, “It was almost 20 years old, and the edges of the paper had already faded...

When I read an article in the New York Times called "Can You Tell What's Real?" It was in the form of a quiz to guess whether something was AI or not. The results dismayed me. I believed I had the ...

For all hand made print lovers,Even now, when I think back on it, it was a series of unpleasant days. I think Japan has taken a brave stance in taking measures against the virus compared to Europe ...