[Cocktail Shobo] “Book Nagaya Festival Autumn” will be held in Koenji from the 17th of this month! Cocktail Shobo Press release: November 11, 2024 “Book Nagaya Festival Autumn” will be held in Koenji from the 17th of this month! With the slogan “Make Koenji a book town!”, we plan a biannual festival where book lovers gather.The theme of this year’s event is “Taiwan, Koenji, 1945. To Eurasia”
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A scene from the documentary film “Love Story Before Dawn” about a “phantom writer” from Taiwan Koenji’s shared bookstore “Hon Nagaya” (3-8-13 Koenji Kita, Suginami-ku) will hold the “Hon Nagaya Festival Autumn” in April of this year. This year’s theme is “Taiwan, Koenji, 1945. And to Eurasia.” Centered around the first screening of the documentary film “Love Story Before Dawn” in Japan, we present a fictional journey that transcends time and space, from Taiwan to Koenji and connecting with the Eurasian continent. A variety of content such as exhibitions, talks, and concerts will be held every day to enliven “Koenji, the City of Books.” You can download the contents of “Book Nagaya Festival Autumn” from below. The event will be held at various locations in Koenji, with a focus on Honnagaya. Please contact the organizer for details of each event. [Talk & Live] Listen, Know, Read The World of North Indian Classical Music Vol.1 Sunday, November 17th 10:00-11:30 @ Main store/Book laboratory Learn Indian music on Sunday mornings. This will be explained in an easy-to-understand manner through stories and talks by sitar player Yuugo Tanaka. Cast: Yuugo Tanaka (story and sitar) Sponsored by: Hon no Nagaya & Ole Ore Lantana Participation fee: 2000 yen Application: andoadv@gmail.com [Exhibition] Koenji, 1945. November 17th (Sunday) – 28th (Thursday) 12:00-17:00 (during Honnagaya business hours) @ Honnagaya 2nd floor An exhibition of Koenji landscapes from 1945 by architectural historian Toshishi Genmei Fujiwara. Sponsored by: Hon no Nagaya Free viewing [Store opening] New book mobile bookstore Hari Shobo collaboration November 17th (Sunday) – 28th (Thursday) 12:00-17:00 (during Honnagaya business hours) @ Honnagaya 1st floor Hari Shobo, a mobile bookstore for new books that operates mainly in parks in the suburbs of Tokyo, will open a special store at the Nagaya Hon no Nagaya! Sponsored by: Hon no Nagaya & Watashi Shobo [Talk] Traditional culture of Taiwanese aborigines and their current location November 18th (Monday) 19:00-20:30 @ Honno Nagaya 1st floor A Taiwanese culture lecture by Eri Liao, a singer who continues to pass on the traditional songs of the Taiwanese Atayal people. There will also be singing demonstrations! Cast: Eri Liao (musician) Listener: Makoto Ando (Hon no Nagaya) Sponsor: Hon no Nagaya & Ole Ore Lantana Participation fee: 1000 yen Application: andoadv@gmail.com [Screening] Documentary film “Love Story Before Dawn” November 19th (Tuesday) 19:00-20:30 @ Cafe Henri Fabre (Za, Koenji 2nd floor) A documentary film about On Do (1908-1940), a writer who lived during the Japanese colonial period in Taiwan, will be screened for the first time in Japan. After talk appearance: Lin Jun-hwan, Huang Bang-jun (director of “Love Story Before Dawn”) Sponsor: Hon no Nagaya Participation fee: Free, no reservation required [Screening & Live] “Love Story Before Dawn” Screening & Wang Yujun Live November 23rd (Sat/Holiday) 18:00-20:00 @ 1st floor of Hon-no-Nagaya The second screening was held at Hon no Nagaya. There will also be a live performance by Wang Yujun, a musician who is active in Taiwan. After-talk appearances: Hayashi Jun-hwan, Huang Bang-jun (director of “Love Story Before Dawn”) Shun Kano (Cocktail Shobo) Minoru Nagataki (Yushisha) Live performance: Wang Yujun (musician) Sponsor: Honno Nagaya Participation fee: 1500 yen Application: eventkoenjihonnonagaya@gmail.com [Talk] Things you would like to know about bookstores (tentative) November 28th (Thursday) 18:00-19:30 @ Honno Nagaya 1st floor A talk event where Watanabe, the owner of the bookstore “Watashi Shobo”, will learn about the bookstore and ask questions to Hari Shobo. Sponsored by: Hon no Nagaya & Watashi Shobo Participation fee: General 1,000 yen, Hako store owner 500 yen, Free for those who purchase Hari Shobo books worth 3,000 yen or more at Hon Nagaya during the special stall period, Purchases of 3,000 yen or more at Hon Nagaya during the event period Free for those who have done so Application:
eventkoenjihonnonagaya@gmail.com 〈Other events after November〉 [Talk] A very useful used book mail order site “Japanese used bookstore” and an inside talk session between “people inside” November 30th (Sat) 16:00-17:30 @Hon-no-Nagaya 1st floor We have invited people involved in the operation of the used book mail order site “Japanese Used Bookstore” to tell us inside stories that can only be heard here. Cast: Yoshihiro Sumita (Used Book Yomitaya) People in Japanese used bookstore X Interviewer: Shun Kano (Cocktail Shobo) Sponsor: Honno Nagaya Participation fee: 1000 yen (limited to 25 people) Application: eventkoenjihonnonagaya@gmail.com [Talk] READ THE BEATLES! Kunihiko Fujimoto’s “Reading the Beatles” Vol.6 ~The mystery of Okappa Kuzushi and the night of Yotsuya~ December 1st (Sunday) 17:30-19:30 @ Honno Nagaya 1st floor The 6th installment of the popular series. This time, we will be inviting Nobuhiro Motohashi, author of “Nude Director Toru Muranishi Biography” as a guest. Cast: Kunihiko Fujimoto (editor) Nobuhiro Motohashi (non-fiction writer) Sponsor: Hon no Nagaya & Ole Ore Lantana Participation fee: 2500 yen (limited to 25 people) Application: andoadv@gmail.com *Other events will be added
sequentially. Date, time, location, etc. are subject to change. Please contact the organizer for details. [What is a book tenement house] This is a shared bookstore where each box has its own owner. The owner of the Hako store, who is known for his variety of books, selects and displays books of his own choosing. Anyone can become a Hako store owner (please contact us directly or refer to our website for fees, systems, etc.). ●A place to connect with people through books Communities are built through communication. This is something I learned while running a book club. We will create a place where people can feel safe and connected, filled with the words of many people. This is the starting point for the book tenement house. A comfortable place for people and books, a place for everyone to come back to or leave for anytime. The future of book tenements is here. ●Studying with 100-year-old architecture After the Great Kanto Earthquake, this tenement house was built as people who had been affected by the downtown area moved to areas along the Chuo Line. This is an old private house built about 100 years ago, which is rare in Tokyo. We constructed the tenement house with the idea of regenerating and utilizing the old building rather than tearing it down and rebuilding it. However, there is no end in sight, and we are still making changes little by little. People who love and cherish old things gather in this tenement house. ●Believe in the power of words Books continue to exist beyond time. I remember clearly the day I read Plato’s “The Feast” and was moved by it. A book written more than 2,000 years ago is being read in this country far from Greece, and it is thrilling. Plato’s desire to preserve Socrates’ words was vividly burnt in this book. The power of words. It may seem like a fancy word that is easily used and overlooked, but now is the time to take advantage of the saying that the pen is mightier than the sword. This is one of the wishes of Nagaya Hon.
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