Trace
[On'yomi] - Sō, (Shū)
[Kun'yomi] - (Ato)
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And then. Footprints.
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Whereabouts.
We are all, without exception, travelers.
Simply by living, we leave traces of that journey behind.
Those traces are, without exception, bitter, fleeting, yet beautiful.
Even if the moment we carve those traces is painful, agonizing, and ugly, when we look back on them from far in the distance, they appear more beautiful the farther away they are.
Whether we choose to show them to others or not, we will continue to leave these traces behind until the day we die.
I cannot help but hope that, when this journey ends, the traces left behind will be ones that make me feel beautiful about having come this far.
I suppose I’ll keep leaving these traces for a while longer. (laughs)
photo by Tsutomu Kinoshita
DAYS
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● from Stockholm / Sweden Maya Working Shoulder to Shoulder with Youths the Same Age as My Own Children read
● from San Diego / U.S.A FAY Satoko Place to Go Home To read
● from Seoul / Korea Kim Mina / Mina Takase I do it because I like it read
● from Osaka / Japan Momoko Nakamura Back Then, Now, and New Vintage Clothing read
● from Germany Yurino Oshima Even though I'm back in Japan temporarily, it feels like Germany is following me wherever I go. read
● from New York / U.S.A Atsuko4Jazz Taking a Spill at the Abbott Dash 5K My coworker surprised me by asking, 'Atsuko, do you want to run the 5K the day before the NYC Marathon? read
● from Yokohama / Japan Kaori Kawamura What We Take Away from Events read
● from Paris / France Sachiko Kuroiwa Why Art Belongs Entirely to Humanity read
● from Cairns / Australia Tsukie Akizawa Regret read
● from Buenos Aires / Argentina Sumiko Kuramitsu How My Obscure Hobby Made Me the Center of Attention read
● from Nagano / Japan Rizumu Kobayashi Rice porridge I ate at a friend's house read
● from Kyoto / Japan Satoko Kumagai Somewhere For Little Bear read
● from Toyama / Japan Tatsuro Rokudo Kaminoichi Autumn 2026 read
ALL DAYS column members
STAY SALTY ...... means column
The daily patterns and colors in our life.
from Paris
les toits de Paris et le violon
Sachiko Kuroiwa
Violinist / Teacher
from Nagano
Things that change, things that keep changing
Rizumu Kobayashi
essayist
from Tokyo
Walking and Walking
My Daredevil Challenge
Reiko Takami
Designer/Writer
from Germany
Guided Journey
Yurino Oshima
Actor / Designer
from Hamburg
Blue sky in Hanseatic city
Jade
Goldsmith / Art Designer
from Tokyo
Still, the world is beautiful. II
Rei Shigeta
Writer/Editor
from Taiwan+Kanagawa
Connect the dots
Everyday life from two bases, Taiwan and Japan.
Ayumi Ogo
Ten10
from Kyoto
Kicks from Books
Satoko Kumagai
Cotachi
from Osaka
flower & Moon
Momoko Nakamura
Writer / Storyteller
Coffee+
Where there's coffee, people gather ! And the pictures, the movies and the plays. For Enjoying Toyama Life !
Tatsuro Rokudo
Taiyo Coffee Roasting Honpo
from Tokushima
sour and sweet alike
Shiha Uenomori
agriculteur
from Chigasaki
SUNNY DAYS SCENERY
Tsutomu Kinoshita
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