Hatoko is twenty-five. She writes letters. On different papers, with pencils and pens, quills and brushes. She seals them in envelopes and sends them to their recipients. These letters contain many destinies, many lives, and even what lies beyond them. Above them. And her entire life. After all, Hatoko is a yuhitsu, the last of her kind. Someone who, in different handwriting, writes different letters for different people on different occasions.
'Tsubaki Stationery' is a kind of requiem for handwritten text. The success of this book in Japan is also explained by the fact that Ito Ogawa touched on a very sensitive topic for her fellow tribesmen. About how important it is—against the backdrop of general mechanization, computerization, universalization, and so on—to preserve the warmth of human breath in words, and the warmth of the human hand in letters.
Author: Ito Ogawa
Publishing House: Polyandria No Age
Year: 2023
Number of pages: 288
Cover type: paperback
Translator: Dmitry Kovalenin
Country of origin: Japan
Age group: 16+
