From the last measure of rice, to the tables of the world.
The care it takes to save a single grain of rice can cross a border without a single word. These are unhurried stories in which small moments around food slowly bind people back to one another.
Works
- 01 The Last Measure of Rice In a provincial town where rice can no longer be bought anywhere, a single gō of rice is all that remains. As the family of Shinomiya Seiichi — a scholar of food ethics — argues over who should use it and how, they are forced to reconsider what it means to eat, and to give: a six-chapter story of food and family. 6 chapters
- 02 The Last Measure of Rice — London: At the City's Table From rice-starved Aogawa to a London overflowing with food, the four members of the Shinomiya family confront the paradox of plenty and, beyond the reach of language, come to share the spirit of mottainai — a six-chapter story of food and family. 6 chapters
- 03 Is This Love a Takeover Target? At Tōto Commerce Academy, romance is quantified in Love Tokens and students are ranked by their balance. From the very bottom of a market that buys and sells feelings, the impossibly pure love of one girl begins to shake the system itself — a romantic comedy of emotional economics. 9 chapters
- 04 The Convergence Paradox A Cognitive Gap Rectification Protocol that would 'correct' all of humanity's intelligence into a single narrow band. Kiryū Haruka, a genius whose IQ exceeds 200, faces a hearing before the World Intelligence Council — and asks what intelligence is, and what diversity is for: a speculative novel on intellect and ethics. 21 chapters
- 05 The Empath Kitagawa Mio, a psychological counselor who feels every sound through her skin, lives as a Highly Sensitive Person. A single session with a patient sets the boundary dissolving — between dream and reality, between others' memories and her own: a six-chapter psychological horror of perception and the unconscious. 6 chapters