KUHAKU is a book just published by Chin Music Press, and it looks really nice. One of the people involved lives not far from here (we’ve talked about cafes in the area). You can read interviews with the authors and view art here, and they even have a canned coffee review section (I’ve probably moblogged a lot of these in my quest for the perfect can of coffee).
I also like how they go about describing the book:
Kuhaku is… about Japan, 112 mm wide, 180 mm high (perfect for your bag), covered in light grey brill #4003 cloth with a 2c foilstamp and 2c silkscreen (perfect for your sense of touch), laid out with minion pro 12/10 on 120g munken pure (perfect for your eyes), 224 pages long filled with 16 stories / essays / accounts and over 10 illustrations featuring kozyndan and peyote, with two full color chapters, by 10 authors and 3 artists, designed in over 20 different locations, printed in Iceland, packaged with love.
What’s not to like. You can order it directly from this page.
Update: You can pick it up now at Book 246 and the Tsutaya at Roppongi Hills, and it will eventually pop up in other interesting bookshops in the city (Intelligent Idiot, Nadiff, and the like). They are presently working on getting some distribution going in North America, so it will also be available there in the near future.
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Oh, my.
Looks interesting, but it’s odd there’s no domestic shipping price listed.
mark >> Right now the “home base” for Chin Music Press is Seattle Washington — which means all of our shipping is handled from there. We’re working on setting up a point of shipping based out of Tokyo but unfortunately until then all international orders, even Japanese, incur the intl’ shipping charges. If you want to wait until after the 24th of September (when I return to Tokyo) I can gladly ship a copy domestically for you.
Can anyone confirm the rumour that ABC is to re-open at least two of its closed Tokyo stores, the ones at Roppongi and Aoyama?
Good news! Just checked their Web site and it does indeed say that these two locations will reopen on 9/29.
the aesthetic appeal of the book seems good…it’s about the Japanese experience? nice.
Oh, that’s definitely good news. The one in Aoyama is the only one that I visited regularly, so I’m glad that I’ll be able to add it to my Aoyama stops again.