Growing wings on your back.
That is an encounter with books.

Wings of imagination let us fly higher than the birds.

Books nurture the wings of imagination.

Have you had this kind of experience? When there’s a problem you want to solve, whenyou’re looking for an answer, a chance visit to the bookstore leads to precisely the words you were seeking. I’ve experienced my own “meaningful happenstances” so many times.

When the thought strikes to read a book, it’s already begun.

Taking a walk is reading the city like a book.

And when we read books, it’s as if we’re taking a walk around the world.

We sincerely hope that you will stay at the KAB Library and Residency, ourmysterious library inn, as part of KAB Art Book Camp. We’d like you to encounter the world, and most of all, encounter yourself.

One cannot live their life as art, but art can be full of life.

This is what our library teaches.

In prose, words are the means. In poetry, words are the purpose. The two are the same.

Books are not a straightforward tool. Books are a straightforward purpose. Our encounters with words are a living thing.

Our mysterious library in the heart of old Tokyo isn’t a place to enjoy; it’s a placewhere you can find joy.

Sakumi Hagiwara,
Principal of KAB Art Book Camp / Director of Maebashi Literature Museum