Dylan Levi King @dylanleviking
Writer and translator. Tokyo Joined November 2014-
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July 15, 2026. In the elevator, everyone I meet repeats, as a greeting, "It's hot today." The streets are quiet. The skies are clear. People stand in the shadows while waiting to cross the street.
Before Adachi Masao, the most famous person I had ever encountered was Zhou Xun, in the lobby bar of the Fairmont Pacific Rim in Vancouver. I saw her face when I opened Twitter, but otherwise, I wouldn't have thought about her today. That was so long ago.
This is a short story about a man going to a chain coffee shop in Fuchu to interview a teenaged Kyrgyzophile for a proposed profile in an online magazine while his wife recovers from the loss of a pregnancy, read by a friend.
July 11, 2026. Men that collect cameras take the dullest pictures. I realize that I'm taking pictures with this decrepit folder only as a diagnostic process, seeing if I've blacked out the light leaks, hit the right exposure for slightly expired Portra, solved the sticky shutter.
July 11, 2026. Shinjuku, near the square in late afternoon, below Lumine.
@dreamfixion I hitchhiked, drove around a lot. I left the country, too, and stayed away for years at a time—a good way to completely reset things. When I came back, it didn't matter, usually, if I lived in North Battleford or Sooke, since all I needed was a job and a place to stay.
@dreamfixion I didn't take life very seriously. I liked going to different places. I took whatever job was available, lived cheaply in some illegal rental. Or, I was just passing through. I stayed in Regina and Vancouver the longest because I was going to school there.
This was the desk in my dormitory room, sometime in 2005, at the University of Regina. The last time I was in the city was in 2014, when I went to visit my first wife in the room she rented from my father's third wife, hoping to win her back. I haven't returned since.
@dreamfixion I felt once or twice more frightened in Calgary than I have anywhere else in Canada, and I didn't like the nice parts. But I liked Edmonton. I lived at the end of 118 Avenue, then just off Whyte, which colors my impressions of it.
@dreamfixion I liked Winnipeg. When I tell that to someone who's lived there, they can't fathom why. I thought it was pretty. I liked the people I met when I visited. I liked going to shows. I liked the restaurants. I even liked the casino. But it probably isn't the same, either.
April 8, 2026. The statue of three nude women frolicking is by Hashimoto Katsudo, who also made the equestrian statue at Nippori. I've never seen the fountain on, the pool with water in it before. A sign nearby says it's open until 16:00, but this picture was taken shortly after.
With a view of Senju beside me, the Detention House across the river and the elevated expressways woven together above Kosuge, I went along the abandoned berm flushing coveys of pigeons from the tall grass and the clover.
@dreamfixion I never thought people seemed more snarky or irritable than in any other town on the Prairies. It seemed like Swift Current with a few offices in the middle. I guess it had half the population, then. And I mostly only knew people I met at school.
July 5, 6, 2026. Uguisudani, Uguisudani, Kita-Ueno, Okachimachi. BBC gloom filter.
July, 2026. Kita-Senju, Nogizaka, Iriya, Kita-Ueno.
A Cameroonian woman on the train past Takenotsuka asked me if I was Japanese after I noticed her lingering gaze and sat down beside her in the priority seats. I was wearing sunglasses, but it still seems implausible. It's a good way to start a conversation.
June 21, 2026. There's a market beside the beach on that day. There wasn't much to see. The usual knick-knacks and artisanal lemonade and a kebab truck. The beach was mostly deserted. It was too early in the season.
June 21, 2026. Pictures taken on Kentmere Pan 100 with a decrepit folding camera. I kept taking pictures, even though I didn't know if the camera worked. I will repair the light leaks in the bellows and try to be more ambitious.
June 21, 2026. Pictures taken with the Shenzhen Tinno Mobile Technology P780 at the coast and on the mountain above it. I went to Oiso with a friend who grew up there, who clearly felt great pride in the place, and seemed glad to show me around. I had been there before.
I pointed out the building where Donald Richie used to live. When we sat under that Asakura Fumio statue and I began my lecture about how it had been installed for the 1964 Olympics and relocated beside the pond to build a traffic island, I felt as if you weren’t listening.
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