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This fourth issue, titled “Quaint Compose Issue,” takes the classical Chinese poetry technique “古韵新_” (gu yun xin feng) as its starting point. It explores how newness and antiquity are not polar opposites, but rather that newness is contained within the past, and that the future can be found by traveling back in time. It also reflects on how, in a modern world where the Eastern view of nature has faded and and how only by returning to this ancient Eastern perspective can we glimpse a new human form.


The editorial features look visuals from the T_LOPLAN Autumn Winter 2023 collection, photographed by Nico Perez, alongside collaboration visuals shot by photographer Fumika Endo at the Odawara Cultural Foundation's Enoura Weather Station.

The editorial features “Unconscious Leaders,” a series of conversations with three women who, by returning to the culture and ideas of an era where people lived in harmony with nature and strong bonds, internalize the current state and challenges of the world from a macro perspective as their own issues, and strive for change step by step from the ground up. It also explores the YATO Project, an initiative that seeks to design the structure for a cultural event to continue for the next 500 years. This project involves repeated activities to learn about and experience the history and nature of the Yato region in Machida City, Tokyo, which was formed over a long period of time, and aims to design the structure for a cultural event to -Unspoilt Land by Nico Perez -Time to Remember Our Origins by Ayaka Endo -Unconscious Leaders -Unspoilt Land by Nico Perez -Time to Remember Our Origins by Ayaka Endo -Unconscious Leaders -Let the Wind Blow


List of Participants (in no particular order, honorifics omitted)
Lisa Tani
Masaki Sugaya
Nico Perez
Kazuhiro Naka
Chihiro Yamada
Mona Kawasaki
Kenji Misawa (Sculpture)
Ayaka Endo
Waka Adachi
Tamayo Yamamoto
Liye Zhong
Asuka Ito
Nami Kunisawa
Akio Kunisawa
Akiko Kikumoto
Yuri Shiino
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Kouya Saito
Haruka Shine
Shuhei Hatano
Anna Miyoshi