Tatami Press journalhttps://tatamipress.com/journal/2026-11-01T09:00:00+09:00Tatami PressGinkgohttps://tatamipress.com/journal/ginkgo/2026-11-01T09:00:00+09:00The ginkgo trees on our street turn all at once, usually in the last week of November, and for a few days the pavement is brighter than the sky. We wanted it on paper before it happens this year. Yellow first, then orange for the deeper leaves, then midnight for the trunks, the road and the long shadows. A3, edition of forty. It will be on the table for the first time at Kuramae on 15 November.Persimmon seasonhttps://tatamipress.com/journal/persimmon-season/2026-10-12T09:00:00+09:00The tree two doors down is heavy again, so Persimmons is finally printed. Orange first, then teal over the leaves; where the two cross you get the dark green of the shadows without a third ink. Fifty copies, A4, on the natural white stock. We pulled about seventy to get fifty we were happy with. The seconds go in the box at the year-end market.Crows at duskhttps://tatamipress.com/journal/crows-at-dusk/2026-09-27T09:00:00+09:00Every evening around five the crows line up on the wires across from the studio before they head for the park. We counted thirty-one one evening in August. The print is out today at the Kagurazaka book fair. Orange sky, a pink sun and midnight crows, A4, edition of fifty.Autumn marketshttps://tatamipress.com/journal/autumn-markets/2026-09-06T09:00:00+09:00We'll be out at markets from mid-November until the end of the year. The dates are on the Visit page and we'll add more as they're confirmed. New since spring: Last Train, Laundry Day and Watermelon, with Persimmons to come next month. Morning Ferry is nearly gone, so if you were waiting for it, come early.Watermelon, for the last hot weekhttps://tatamipress.com/journal/watermelon/2026-08-30T09:00:00+09:00A small one for the end of summer: watermelon on the veranda, the way it gets eaten at every grandparent's house we know. A5, edition of sixty, so it fits a small frame or a postcard stand. It came out at the Yanaka night market tonight and half of them went before dark.Laundry Dayhttps://tatamipress.com/journal/laundry-day/2026-08-09T09:00:00+09:00The first print off the repaired drum. Yellow for the whole sheet, then blue for the washing and the balcony rail, so the sky and the shadows come from the same two inks. A4, edition of fifty. We printed it in one long afternoon with every window open.The drum is backhttps://tatamipress.com/journal/the-drum-is-back/2026-07-19T09:00:00+09:00The blue drum started leaving a faint stripe down every sheet in June. It turned out to be a worn screen, and the only replacement we could find came from a print shop closing down in Saitama. It's fitted and printing cleanly again, which means the summer pause is over. Thank you to everyone who asked after it at the June market.Printing pausedhttps://tatamipress.com/journal/printing-paused/2026-06-07T09:00:00+09:00A fine blue stripe has been running down every sheet since the start of the month, and cleaning hasn't fixed it. We've stopped printing blue until we find out why. We'll still be at Yanaka on the 14th with what we have. Nothing new until the drum is sorted.Last Train is outhttps://tatamipress.com/journal/last-train-is-out/2026-05-24T09:00:00+09:00Last Train went on the table at Kuramae this morning. Forty copies, A3, three inks. Several of you asked why the yellow windows don't sit inside the train. They never quite will on our machine, and we like that the light spills a little.Last Train, proofshttps://tatamipress.com/journal/last-train-proofs/2026-05-03T09:00:00+09:00Three inks this time: blue for the sky and water, midnight for the viaduct, yellow for the windows. The yellow goes down last and never quite lands where the windows are, which we decided we like. We proofed it on four papers and went back to the one we always use. A3, edition of forty, out later this month.Carp streamershttps://tatamipress.com/journal/carp-streamers/2026-04-26T09:00:00+09:00The house at the corner flies its carp streamers from the middle of April, and on a windy day they swim straight out over the road. A5, edition of sixty, in time for Children's Day. Blue, bright red and midnight, one ink for each fish.Cherry canalhttps://tatamipress.com/journal/cherry-canal/2026-04-05T09:00:00+09:00We printed this one fast, in the week the trees were out, and took it to the Nakameguro stalls under the real thing. Pink first, then blue for the water and midnight for the trunk and the bridge. Fifty copies, A4. The petals on the water are the bits of paper we kept bare.Spring postal releasehttps://tatamipress.com/journal/spring-postal-release/2026-03-15T09:00:00+09:00The spring postal release is closed and the last envelopes went out this week. Thank you for the notes that came back; one of you framed Hydrangea next to a real one. The next postal release is in autumn, after the markets.The tramhttps://tatamipress.com/journal/tram/2026-03-08T09:00:00+09:00Tokyo's last streetcar line runs a few stops from us, one car at a time, past gardens that grow roses along the track. We rode it end to end twice for this. A3, edition of forty. Out today at Monzen-Nakacho.Vending Machinehttps://tatamipress.com/journal/vending-machine/2026-02-15T09:00:00+09:00The machine at the end of our back street is the only light there after midnight, and the moths know it. Midnight, yellow and fluorescent pink. The pink drinks are the one place we let three inks stack. A4, edition of fifty.Snow on the wireshttps://tatamipress.com/journal/snow-on-the-wires/2026-01-25T09:00:00+09:00It snowed properly on the 9th, for about four hours. By the afternoon every wire on the street had a white line along the top, and by the evening it had all dropped off. We drew it that night and printed it the week after. The snow is bare paper. A4, edition of fifty, first shown at the Ryogoku print fair today.2025 in numbershttps://tatamipress.com/journal/2025-in-numbers/2026-01-04T09:00:00+09:00Eleven new prints, eleven markets, one postal release, and a little over two thousand sheets through the machine, counting proofs and seconds. Our first A3 edition sold out in December. Thank you for coming to find us. The first market of 2026 is the print fair in Ryogoku on 25 January.Rooftops in Rain sold outhttps://tatamipress.com/journal/rooftops-sold-out/2025-12-14T09:00:00+09:00The last copy of Rooftops in Rain went at the Kuramae market this morning. That's our first A3 edition gone, about eight months after we printed it. We don't reprint, so that's it for this one. Thank you.Ramen Nighthttps://tatamipress.com/journal/ramen-night/2025-11-16T09:00:00+09:00Drawn from above at the counter of the shop by the station, which we will not name because it's busy enough already. Midnight, yellow and bright red, A4, edition of fifty. The yolks are yellow and red printed over each other.Shrine gateshttps://tatamipress.com/journal/shrine-gates/2025-10-05T09:00:00+09:00A row of red gates going up a hill path at a small shrine we pass on the way to the paper shop. The light comes through in stripes. Bright red for the gates, green for the woods and black for the caps. A4, edition of fifty.