A collection of everyday snapshots by one of Japan's most promising emerging talents in fashion work. However, for Motohiko Hasui, the personal matters more. Caught between emotional ties to his Japanese identity and an affinity to the West, he captures his relationship to a place, Tokyo, and to the people who wander in and out of his life. That tease of longing for his other self outside the city is counterbalanced by the love of his wife, family and friends, who are predominant in his environment. From page to page he is continually questioning his identity and his place in the world, pitting his existential desires for western ideals against his attachment to his heritage.

The result is an honest and personal record of contemporary sub-culture and fashion in Tokyo, through the eyes of a person who is in the thick of it, both physically and emotionally. It encompasses the transience and permanence of his relationships and the physical flow of existence in one of the world's busiest and most concrete cities.

Bound in faux leather, with a tipped-on plate on the cover, the book references the visual diary he had kept over the previous two years, complete with page marker and elastic strap.