This book invites readers on a sensory journey—
through color, texture, and memory—
guided by the highest-quality fresh fish found at Tokyo’s Toyosu Market.

This is not a guidebook.
It is a visual and cultural record of fish culture, shaped by sight, taste,
and the accumulation of lived experience.
Glossy scales catching the light, subtle hues held within the flesh—
on every page, fish appear in their most honest, most eloquent form.

Carefully crafted through close collaboration with market professionals,
FAVORITE FISH: OURS AND YOURS is an homage to the gifts of the sea,
seen through the hands, gazes, and sensibilities of those who work with fish every day.
From the market to the table, and from the table to the bookshelf,
this book celebrates fish not merely as ingredients, but as culture.

The book is presented in three distinct cover editions,
each offering a different point of entry into the same body of work.

The Market Walk captures a single moment within the spatial rhythm of Toyosu Market—
a photograph that holds the air, scale, and quiet tension of the place itself.

The Floating World evokes an ukiyo-like vision,
where fish drift between reality and representation,
linking contemporary market life to older currents of Japanese visual culture.

The Favorite Portrait, the emblematic cover of this book,
faces the reader directly—
a distilled image that stands as the quiet symbol of what this collection seeks to preserve.

Different covers, one book—
each inviting the reader to encounter fish, and the culture surrounding them,
from a slightly different angle.

This book is a photographic exploration of Tokyo’s Tsukiji Outer Market.
It is not a guidebook.
Rather, it approaches the market as a living landscape—
a place where gestures, textures, and fleeting moments overlap and quietly pass by.

Instead of cataloging shops or products, the book gathers fragments of everyday scenes:
fish laid out at dawn, hands constantly in motion,
tools softened and rounded by years of use,
and the quiet pride that resides in work repeated day after day.
These moments are woven together through scattered visual notes and brief reflections.

What emerges is Tsukiji’s presence as a place where food culture, memory,
and human rhythm intersect—
an eminence shaped through the accumulation of time.

The series observes Tsukiji through three distinct temporal lenses.

In Volume I, Prosperity, the market’s rising energy at daybreak comes into view.
Volume II, Coolness lingers on the hours when movement settles
and the steady flow of hands defines the rhythm of work.
Volume III, Maturity reveals the expressions of a market shaped by experience,
where layers of labor and knowledge quietly surface.

Rather than treating Tsukiji as a destination,
this book invites readers to regard it as a place of observation—
to pause, to notice, and to attune their senses
to what so often goes unseen.

In the playful spirit of Edo-period kibyōshi—where wit, observation, and everyday life quietly intertwine—this book presents a contemporary record of fish culture as a floating world.

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Professor Junki appears as a modern-day flâneur of the marketplace. He does not lecture. He listens. He notices what passes too quickly to be fixed in record: a remark before dawn, the weight of a fish laid on ice, the silence that follows a single, well-chosen word.

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Originally written as short serialized episodes for a mail magazine, these texts are gathered here as curious records—compact pieces that echo the rhythm of kibyōshi: light in form, sharp in timing, and rich in implication.

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Fish come and go,
words linger longer—
Morning breaks again.

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Rather than explaining fish or markets, the book relies on mitate (playful analogy), restraint, and tone. A single exchange becomes a mirror of custom; a fleeting scene opens onto layers of memory, linking Edo’s floating world with the present-day market.

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This is not a guidebook. Not a historical survey. It is, in spirit, a modern yellow-cover book—
observational, gently humorous, and quietly reflective.