ILLUSTRATION

Cover : Nature and Human life being related.

Mandara with flow shows the sophisticated and diverse connection between human beings and nature. When human beings touch nature, unique (same times negative) connection, which could not exist in the untouched situation, will develop. Once human beings and natures are connected, new landscapes are created, new interaction among creatures are born, and earth environment is affected. Knowledge of these things may be the first step to establish the sustainable relationship between human beings and nature.

Illustration : Tomoya Mukaida

http://www.tomoyamukaida.com/

Cover Tittle : KUJIKA
January/February : “Diversity and Harmony of vegetable Cooking”　

When prepare menu and cook, I catch, in the mid-space of brain, factors surrounding a saucer like floating planets and satellites and lay them converted into language.
There, you can see that foods satisfying mind and body have diversity and harmony. Furthermore, Foodstuffs composed only by vegetables extract the energy animals have.
Simple dishes like half-milled rice with miso soup of vegetable and pickles will, if you make close observation, have diversity and harmony. You will be moved with ethereal blessing to go on alive. ARIGATOU, ITADAKIMASU.

Illustration by YOSHIVEGGIE

ＭS Keiko Imazato. Vegetable Cooking Researcher. Kitchen Permaculturist, hailed from Nagasaki. She makes a proposal of cooking to fuse:
”Bless of Vegetable x Organic Spice of India x Japanese Fermentation”
In 2017, she settled down at a mountain village of Chichibu Saitama Pref. Cultivating fields, and drawing pictures, she runs a café “NANAIRO GOHAN_Chichibu_nanairo” using an old farm house.

https://www.instagram.com/yoshiveggie/
March/April : Permaculture design for Quals

Quails have come to my house. “Why quails?” Some ask.
They are smaller than chickens, good to keep in a smaller space and call very softly.
Therefore, with them can we pursue the concept of Sub-Urban Permaculture in the residential area.
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Each zone like house gardens, forest gardens, neighboring shops, nearby woods and bamboo bushes produce resources (including so far unused ones). Keeping quails has given us more abundant system in our life connecting each other more.
PERMACULTURE for Quails: Design by Jun Omura & Wakana Kawamura

Illustration by Wakana Kawamura

Illustrator & Permaculture Designer.
After graduated from the university, she started to work as a nurse in Kobe but, fascinated by American music and art, jumped out to the west coasts of USA in 2003. Out there, she found herself taken with green things. So, she entered landscape faculty to study botany and designing, and there encountered Permaculture. She returned to Japan in 2016. What she has been doing is “to create eatable woods” throughout Japan. As a member of Permaculture Dash Lab, she works as permaculture designer and also has made a debut as an illustrator composing “Earth Catalogue for everybody”
Now in Hamamatsu is she engaged in Forest Garden Project, which is to create eatable woods.

www.wakanakawamura.com
May/June : A word on connection from Sapporo・Small cosmos garden−reality and dream edition−

Since 2019, I am growing vegetables on the empty lot, which I rented, next to my apartment.
The lot is narrow but I have found it’s great, as harvest is not only from my vegetables but also from many other plants. I realized the small garden has cosmic spread. (There is cosmos in the soil, too!) So, I have named this place as “Small Cosmos Garden”.
I drew this time a picture that the small garden spreads to the big cosmos. The overall view of the garden is placed in the center surrounded by 6 petals which show six features of the garden with my modest dreams added. Constellations expressing words of my needs and stars in the shape of living beings in the soil are scattered around them. My daily joy is that even such a small garden in the city of Sapporo is spreading the connection.

Illustration by Seira Hori

Resident of Sapporo. Designer as label. (However, my stance is that my job is to express myself without being subject to the label).
In my childhood, I attended a primary school and a free school where I was uniquely educated in the circumstances surrounded by nature.
I encountered with Permaculture after the earthquake disaster in 2011. Permaculture attracted me as its direction comfortably suited my creed that nature and human beings are all closely connected influencing each other and both should mutually affect virtuously. I started to learn. If I can afford to securing time, I’d like to visit many places and receive trainings.
Believing my intuition and life-flow, I want to live capriciously. My interest is in leading my life on what I am and attain a full-fledged life.
July/August : Where are foods produced?

This picture was drawn for editing a picture book for food education.
It will be the first step for the sustainable future to know the derivation of the place where you live, in-flowing water and your foodstuff. This idea has brought me to draw a deformed landscape picture to cover all sites of food production. Rice fields, fields for vegetables to suit making pickles and miso soup fixings, chicken farm where hens lay eggs, orchards grow fruits on the soil well drained.

Illustration by Tomoya Mukaida

Born in 1972 at Kawasaki City, Kanagawa.
Engaged in creative activities on the theme of related human life and nature of Japan.
Project planning, composition, illustration and designing are of his work, while he authored books such as “One year of rice fields,” “One year of miscellaneous tree woods”, “One year of vegetable fields”. (Each book published by Shogakkan) And as an illustrate designer, his works include “Visual data book「Living things of Japan」(Published by Gakken), so on.
In addition, as another activity related to permaculture, he creates many PR materials of “Morimiasu” complex facility of experience for children at Okachi machi Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Pref.

http://www.tomoyamukaida.com/
September/October : Yields of a Goat

Suppose you keep goats. What kind of benefits do you expect?
They eat grasses, specially like arrowroots, rogue to devastate village forests.
They also eat weeds, which means helping us eradicate weeds.
Milk is for butter and cheese,　meat is delicious and bowels are for casing of sausage.
Cashmere goat wool makes warm sweaters and scarves, leather is for purses, bags, mats and drums. Horn may be puppy’s toy and is good for interior accessary. Nails are mineral-rich and good for compost, it is said. Off course, they themselves give us comfort in our life.

Illustration by Chihiro Tomita

Designer to cherish the earth.
Around the end of 2018, she participated in a design course and was shocked; may we live such a life? Making use of her past experiences in the commercial design business, her central activities as “designer to cherish the earth” are regional graphics, web designing, animation production, etc.
She gently runs a community café “Tsunagiba Café “(Meaning Connection Place Café) at Wazuka Cho, Kyoto. She is challenging the life style not to buy brand new things.

chihirotomita.com
November/December : Multipurpose Bath and Compositing Toilet

At the early stage of the relocation to Fukushima Prefecture, we constructed a practical facility based on Permaculture design.
( Application for Exhaust Heat)
＊Design of efficient exhaust heat: Heat of fuelwood for warming bath →floor heating→hot water appliance.
(Natural Energy)
＊Stand-alone solar generator→lighting and washing machine.
＊Hand-made solar water-heater→bath tub.
＊Rainwater→vegetable fields and washing Clothes.
(Recycle to the earth)
＊Compost toilet→Fertilizer for vegetables fields and orchards

Illustration by KURADO (Joe,Takae and Katsuya Kobayashi)

We relocated to Miharu Cho, Fukushima Pref. in order to practice Permaculture but Again, in 2011, moved to kume Minami Cho Okayama Pref., due to the earthquake Disaster. We built a multiple purpose cooking oven with Pechka function to it. We are now building out Permaculture design from near targets at gentle pace.