A historical novel about Takashima Hokkai and Nancy, portraying encounters between Meiji Japan and the wider world and the border-crossing life of an artist. Foreign landscapes and personal passion overlap.

A journey following the name Hokkai reconnects art and history.

A novel in which Katsusuke Miyauchi examines war, faith, and politics through the extreme act of self-immolation. It presents the violence of an era as a grave question written on the body.

A burning body illuminates the contradictions of an age.

A critical study that reads the Showa era through the history of tanka. It connects poets’ expression with social change and follows how the form absorbed the spirit of its time.

Tanka becomes another history reflecting the spirit of Showa.

A documentary following Beate Sirota Gordon, who helped shape the equality clause in Japan’s constitution, and the women who carried that ideal forward. It revisits postwar women’s history through film.

Beate’s wish connects to the voices of women living after the war.

A film set in a home for elderly gay men, where a daughter estranged from her father, her father’s lover, and the dying father himself slowly change their relationship. It quietly explores family and acceptance.

A daughter who rejected her father reconsiders family in his final home.

A historical novel about Takashima Hokkai and Nancy, portraying encounters between Meiji Japan and the wider world and the border-crossing life of an artist. Foreign landscapes and personal passion overlap.

A journey following the name Hokkai reconnects art and history.