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