Subsequence #8
258 × 372 mm, 148 pages
Tokyo, Japan (Japanese and English-language)
Biannual
Editor-in-chief: Kosuke Ide
Art director: Junpei Niki
Design: Ryosuke Tanoue
‘Arts & Crafts for the Age of Eclectic’ is the tagline for this large-format Japanese magazine. It covers a wide range of arts, crafts and cultures, inclusive to all ages, genders and nationalities, featuring both Japanese and international contributors. It’s a tactile artefact; its expansive matt pages housing delicate watercolours, quirky illustrations, soft-focus photographs—portraiture, urban and natural landscapes, and object close-ups—alongside artist profiles and interviews, reviews, global features and touching anecdotal stories.
This is the ‘A Sense of Something’ issue, the last issue to be published in its iconic large-scale format. Inside, you’ll find a series of heartfelt pieces spanning memory and the gradual slipping away of time. Leaf through personal essays, including Kris Latocha’s reflection on growing up in Poland as the cultural landscape shifted following the collapse of Communism; Junya Nogushi’s ode to the nostalgic joy of re-tasting the McGriddle burger twenty years on; and writer Kyohei Sakaguchi’s—at first hesitant—immortalisation of the lives touched by Minamata disease. Further features look towards a long-lost era of cross-disciplinary fertilisation in downtown New York’s now gentrified lofts; an ecological, nomadic and self-sustaining atelier in the Tibetan village of Ritoma; and Tomigaya bakery Levain’s innovative and spiritual foray into home-cultured yeast.