Purchase eligible books and receive a free washi-style bookmark! Kotonoha Bunko’s “Long Autumn Nights Reading Fair” will be held at select bookstores starting October 10th!
Micro Magazine, Inc. Press release: October 3, 2025 To Members of the Press Purchase eligible books and receive a free washi-style bookmark! Kotonoha Bunko’s “Long Autumn Nights Reading Fair” will be held at select bookstores starting October 10th! Kotonoha Bunko will be holding the “Kotoha Bunko Autumn Night Reading Fair” at select bookstores starting Friday, October 10, 2025.
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48095/2421/48095-2421-511166e1426d6afd50a3969676482c15-650×926.jpg One Day, Somewhere, a Break: 35 Stories A La Carte Read in 3 Minutes Author: Murata Ten / Illustrations: Futamimori Fumi ISBN:
9784867167304 Price: ¥792 (¥720 10% tax) The first breakfast two college couples had together. Late-night ramen with a high school classmate they met by chance. Nabeyaki udon made for me by a colleague when I had a cold. Learning how to make stew from my mother so I could feed my boss who hates cooking. The secret to using up all the simmered dishes in the fridge (with the help of others). The reason I started to dislike onigiri, and how I’m now able to eat them again. Discovering the taste of toriten at a Christmas party and discovering an unexpected side to someone I like. The lunch break where we exchange bread and drinks we bought together. Summer curry made by my younger brother brings back nostalgic and funny memories. The world of someone whose food was saved by eels. 35 wonderful food-related scenes that you may have experienced in the past, or may experience in the future.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48095/2421/48095-2421-bc57ac96f43424dd0eb0c641fbc90fae-650×928.jpg Ooku no Goyuhitsu ~I will deliver your feelings~ Author: Kikukawa Asuka / Illustrations : Kaoru Haruno ISBN: 9784867163931 Price: ¥792 (¥720 10% tax) Risa’s family has taunted her, calling her a cursed child because she can see ghosts. Risa had begun to shy away from her powers and was on the verge of losing meaning in life, but what kept her going was a letter from her aunt, Otoyo, who worked in the inner palace. “Why don’t you come to the Ooku?” Men are not allowed there, and all duties are performed by women, who all work with enthusiasm. Risa, with Otoyo’s help, decides to become a maid, hoping that even someone like her can be of use to someone. However, a certain ghost incident is occurring there… A moving Edo-set novel in which Risa, a maid with the power of clairvoyance, and Sanosuke, the ghost of a samurai who has lost his memory, unravel the regrets of the ghosts who appear in the Ooku.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48095/2421/48095-2421-02f0a4c8cefdb5405c07123bd58f2bf1-650×926.jpg Kyoto Matcha Labyrinth Author: Sho Ishida / Illustration: Hanamori ISBN：9784867167458 List price: 781 yen (710 yen tax 10%) Oba Koyori is in her third year of working as an office clerk at Uzumasa Publishing, a small publishing company in Kyoto. One day, while filling in for a senior editor who had fallen ill with food poisoning, she went to a meeting with author Minazuki Yutaka to deliver some materials. However, she got caught up in Minazuki’s laid-back, Kyoto-style manner, and before she knew it, she had taken over as editor for the project. Koyori’s first book is a travel essay book titled “Kyoto Matcha Labyrinth (working title),” in which she explores interesting anecdotes about Kyoto’s matcha, touring popular landmarks and shops, and enjoying matcha sweets and tea ceremonies. Koyori is excited about her first job as an editor, but as she continues her research with Minazuki, she hears a mysterious matcha anecdote about “Sen no Rikyu’s grandson, Sotan,” and “the love of a white fox.” And then, as if in keeping with that legend, an incident occurs at a tea shop run by a family said to be “descendants of foxes”…!? Image
URL: https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48095/2421/48095-2421-5ec1726406e16ad6216c9853ef27c4e9-650×929.jpg Say goodbye at Kyoto’s Mugendo: A place to send off the soul of your beloved doll Author: Kurage Mochizuki / Illustrations: Cheriko ISBN: 9784867165195 Price: ¥792 (¥720 10% tax) Asuna, who is fed up with life due to her unique ability to see people’s emotions in colors, is one day subjected to an unreasonable layoff. At a loss, she finally finds a sign that reads, “Employees Urgently Hiring.” The shop is called “Mugendo,” run by the owner Tsuge and his talking cat Uta, and is dedicated to witnessing the final moments of dolls that are inhabited by souls. Asuna ends up working at “Mugendo” through a series of unexpected events, where she begins to read the dolls’ emotions and absorb their anger and sadness. A heartwarming, yet fleeting, doll story that accompanies dolls with nowhere to go in their final moments.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/48095/2421/48095-2421-5858c476bba4137c06e0c22745936c3f-650×928.jpg A black bear lives downstairs Author: Marime / Illustrations: Mizukawa Masaya ISBN: 9784867165744 Price: ¥792 (¥720 10% tax) When a fire breaks out in the rental apartment where she lives, hardworking working woman Yuriko has to move suddenly. She’s introduced to a 35-year-old apartment that allows pets. Living downstairs is a friendly Asiatic black bear with a striking crescent moon pattern on its chest. He loves drinking coffee with someone, honey cake, brown bear beer, and hot pot. Before hibernating, he makes sure to give out Christmas, New Year’s, and Valentine’s Day gifts before going to sleep. Spending each day with this laid-back bear gently soothes Yuriko’s slightly tired heart. And before she knew it, it was natural for her to want to face her mother, whom she had always turned her back on.
Kotonoha Bunko is a literary label for adult women from Micro Magazine, celebrating its 6th anniversary in 2025.
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