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FAVORITE FISH: OURS AND YOURS (The Fresh Fish Almanac) explores Japanese food culture through fresh fish. Centered on Tsukiji and Toyosu markets in Tokyo, the book captures the rhythm of the GEMBA—buying, sorting, packing, and shipping—along with seasonal and regional diversity. Not a textbook or encyclopedia, it offers a visual journey through color, texture, and cultural context, guided by the philosophy of EAT FISH (Gyoshoku Fukyu).

Along the road to building our main book, FAVORITE FISH: OURS AND YOURS, an unavoidable detour emerged. Mornings spent simply walking through Tsukiji Outer Market—the whiteness of ice, rising steam, the warmth left in working hands. Quiet moments like these gathered, almost unnoticed, and grew into a book of their own. Tsukiji Outer Market — Scatter Sight Notes is not a book that speaks, but one meant to be noticed while walking.

This book begins with a quiet question: what kind of scene might we have witnessed if the Tokyo Olympics had unfolded alongside today’s surge of energy? Memories of Tsukiji Outer Market during the Rugby World Cup year, encounters with people, shared tastes, and a single decisive photograph of an alfonsino at Toyosu Market all shaped its path. Over seven years of photographing fish, markets, and conversations, one book gradually branched into another—gathering time, place, a

For the past five years, I’ve wandered through secondhand bookshops, following three quiet signals: fish, sushi, and old Edo. What began as a search through seasonal fish almanacs gradually shifted— from fish to cuisine, from cuisine to the seasons themselves. Somewhere between the briny air of morning markets and the paper-scented hush of old books, a path emerged, tying fish, books, and Edo into one quiet story.