Hon no Machi June 2026 Issue (Vol. 14) — Now Available Free at Member Shops from May 10

Thank you, as always, for reading Hon no Machi. The season of fragrant early-summer breezes has arrived, and strolling around Jimbocho is a pleasure.

The June issue (Vol. 14) of the monthly Hon no Machi was published on May 10.

Highlights of This Issue

ELLI’s Town Walks Visits Ochanomizu Hotel Shoryukan

We visited this “home away from home in Tokyo,” founded in 1950 and loved by guests from Japan and abroad.

Writers’ Antinuclear Statement and the Japan Education Center (Part 2)

Shigeru Owada revisits his memories of a rally, packed to capacity, held at Hitotsubashi Hall on March 3, 1982.

Trotsky and Seki Sano’s Mexico

Starting from the film The Assassination of Trotsky, Tetsuro Kato traces the footsteps of Seki Sano, the stage director who went into exile in Mexico.

▶ Read “Photographer ELLI’s Town Walks” #13: Ochanomizu Hotel Shoryukan on the web
▶ Read this issue’s installment of Ryosuke Sakota’s “Jimbocho and Me” on the web

Contents of This Issue

• My Apprenticeship in Old Books (10): Not Worthy to Tie His Shoelaces / Inuhiko Yomota
• Engraved Memories (2): When I Began Making Prints / Gen Yamanaka
• Jimbocho and Me (13): The Oden Shop “A-One” (3) / Ryosuke Sakota
• Book Lovers of the Old-Book District (2): Shintaro Takahashi / Ken Kayahara
• Postwar Scenes Around Jimbocho (7): Writers’ Antinuclear Statement and the Japan Education Center (Part 2) / Shigeru Owada
• A Doctor’s Path Alongside Ochanomizu / Yasunori Ishigaki
• In Search of Yojiro Shimamura’s Paintings (9) / Naoko Shimamura
• New Whimsical Journal of Art (History) (14) / Hiroaki Goto
• A Mini Theater with a Café and Bookshelves (2) / Tadashi Koyama
• Curtain Calls in Full Bloom (5) / Hiroshi Takahagi
• Notebook of Sounds, File 9: Cherry Blossoms in Ueno and Wagner / Marsha Lin
• Photographer ELLI’s Town Walks (13): Ochanomizu Hotel Shoryukan / Eri Ito
• Encountering Yukio Mishima’s Handwritten Manuscripts / Tomoe Watanabe
• There’s No Hobby as Wonderful as Jazz! (78) / Kazuyuki Iida
• From the Study of an International History Detective (8): Trotsky and Seki Sano’s Mexico / Tetsuro Kato
• Early Photographs of Edo Castle and Its Surroundings (81) / Atsushi Shimizu

Cover: Gen Yamanaka, “Two Fruits”

Publication Details

• Issue: Monthly Hon no Machi, June 2026 issue (Vol. 14)
• Publication date: May 10, 2026
• Cover price: ¥150 (tax incl.) — distributed free at member shops
• Publisher: Hon no Machi Editorial Office
• Where to find it: Member shops and other locations in Kanda, Jimbocho and Ochanomizu (list of member shops and pickup points)

The PDF of this issue is available on note.

Earlier issues can be read on our Back Issues page. *Exhibitions, events, shop information, advertisements and other details are as of the original publication date.

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