Letters From The Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop by Kenji Ueda

BATB score: 3/10 📝

*reader discretion advised* BATB doesn’t think BATB has enough patience for Japanese authors - may we never meet again

Best to: seriously 20+ pages just for the stationary shop owner to greet the first arriving customer hello 🫠

Best as: introduction to a stationary store: the pen, the different pens, the paper, the different paper, the ink, the seal 🖋️🔖💌

Best for: heartfelt short stories they say, heart burn slowest burn short but long stories I say