Tsuchiya Onsui Pool

Image Description: The first issue focuses on taking leave, featuring essays and responses from nine contributors who stepped away from work, school, or activities. They reflect on what led them to rest, what changed (or didn’t), and what it means to take a break.

Edited by: Lisa Tsuchiya
Illustrations: Jun Yabuki
Design: Yuka Tada
Writing by:
Minamo, Nobu, Hirata, Shiori, Shizuka, Nozomu, Kazahari, Ume, Lisa
English Translation Support: Ryoya Minami
Special Thanks: Chihiro

“Walking through the airport, I still couldn't quite believe I was going to London. And yet, I was. What surprised me over and over again was that it had been six years. It wasn't that I thought I couldn't go. It simply never occurred to me. Somehow, I had forgotten that I could. I wasn't unable to go. I just didn't. If I had wanted to, I could have gone anytime.”
A diary of a month and a half spent in Europe, presented in Japanese, English, and French.

Text&Photographs: Lisa Tsuchiya
Design: Yuka Tada
Artwork: Ryoya Minami
English Translation Support:
Saki Tsuchiya, Ryoya Minami
Special Thanks: Saki Nishi

"I am afraid of making promises. I don’t trust myself to always keep promises, I am afraid of hurting the other person someday. I cannot promise my future to anyone." If these words can reach you like a letter...

Text&Design: Lisa Tsuchiya

A zine about being overlooked outside the economy, and refusing to be measured by money—holding grief, anger, and joy.

Text&Design: Lisa Tsuchiya

“During those days, when simply resting was my daily life, I received so much from the people around me. I was amazed to discover how much warmth sleeps inside each person. A light began gathering inside me, growing until it felt as though it might overflow. What if the things we carry within us could move a little farther outward?”
This book reminds us of the small, warm light that shines within us, and how, when we give that light expression or share it with another—with a little courage—the world itself begins to stir.
— IIKAZE

Art&Text: Lisa Tsuchiya
Design: Yuka Tada
Edit: Yuya Mukumoto
Published by: IIKAZE