SHIBUYA PHOTO BOOK FAIR at Shibuya Hikarie 8/COURT on July 11 (Sat) & 12 (Sun)!

The "SHIBUYA PHOTO BOOK FAIR," a two-day event bringing together bookstores based in Shibuya and shops with ties to the area, will be held on July 11 (Sat) and 12 (Sun) at 8/COURT on the 8th floor of Shibuya Hikarie.

This event is part of "My Gaze, Your Gaze SHIBUYA ART WEEKEND" (Organizer: Tokyu Corporation, Planning & Production: Bunkamura /me and you), a related event to the large-scale photo exhibition "Miracles of Gaze: Adventures of Japanese Women Photographers" held at Shibuya Hikarie Hall.

The participating stores for the "SHIBUYA PHOTO BOOK FAIR" are POST, Shelf, Daily Practice Books, Open Room, commune, Sister, Aoyama Book Center, SALT AND PEPPER, and UTERECHT, totaling 9 stores. Bookstores based in Shibuya and shops with connections to the area will gather, offering photo books, books, zines, and miscellaneous goods selected by each store under the themes of "Women's Gaze" and "City and Gaze." A select booth by the web media me and you will also be present. Popular photographers such as Masumi Ishida, Ichiko Uemoto, Kikuko Ujuyama, Shiori Ota, Kasumi Nagata, Mizue Kitada, Mariko Kobayashi, Noa Sonoda, Hane-ga, Kanade Hamamoto, and Aya Yasuda are scheduled for consignment sales.

Furthermore, the venue will host valuable book signings by Sakiko Nomura and Ai Iwakoshi (held at the Shelf booth), a talk by Rieko Nagashima and Ayaka Wada, a live acoustic performance by V.I., workshops by Tsume wo Nuru Hito and Aiko Koike, and the participatory exhibition "Me, Shibuya, and."

Centered around the large-scale photo exhibition "Miracles of Gaze: Adventures of Japanese Women Photographers" held at Shibuya Hikarie Hall this summer, Shibuya will sparkle with art for the weekend.

"SHIBUYA PHOTO BOOK FAIR" Event Outline

Dates: July 11, 2026 (Sat) 11:30 AM - 7:00 PM, July 12, 2026 (Sun) 11:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Admission: Free

Venue: Shibuya Hikarie 8/COURT

Participating Stores: commune, POST, Open Room, Shelf, Daily Practice Books, Sister, Aoyama Book Center, UTERECHT, SALT AND PEPPER, me and you

Consignment Sales Artists for me and you Booth: Masumi Ishida, Ichiko Uemoto, Kikuko Ujuyama, Shiori Ota, Kasumi Nagata, Mizue Kitada, Mariko Kobayashi, Noa Sonoda, Hane-ga, Kanade Hamamoto, Aya Yasuda (Titles omitted)

Special Website: https://www.bunkamura.co.jp/sp/manazashi/

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◆ Sakiko Nomura & Ai Iwakoshi Book Signing Event

Date & Time: July 12 (Sun) Sakiko Nomura: 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM, Ai Iwakoshi: 4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Location: "Shelf" booth within "SHIBUYA PHOTO BOOK FAIR" at Shibuya Hikarie 8/COURT

Book signing events will be held for photographers Sakiko Nomura and Ai Iwakoshi, who are also exhibiting in "Miracles of Gaze: Adventures of Japanese Women Photographers." Photo books with limited remaining stock, such as Sakiko Nomura's "Lirio" and "Ango," and Ai Iwakoshi's "A New River" and "COHO COME HOME," will also be on sale.

◆ Workshop: Tsume wo Nuru Hito "Nail Painting Inspired by Photos" (Paintable from 1 Nail)

Date & Time: July 11 (Sat) 11:30 AM - 7:00 PM

Participation Fee (Tax Included): 1 nail ¥500 (10 min) / 2 nails ¥800 (20 min) / 5 nails ¥1,500 (30 min) / 10 nails ¥3,000 (40 min)

*On-site registration on the day (Numbered tickets will be distributed during busy periods, and registration will close once all slots are filled).

An event will be held with nail artist "Tsume wo Nuru Hito," where participants can have their nails painted with color schemes from their favorite photos. Using favorite photo works brought by participants or their own photographs, nails will be colored on the spot. By making beautiful scenery or impressions from photos a part of the body, it may offer a different perspective. False nails with photo backgrounds called "album" by Tsume wo Nuru Hito will also be sold at the venue.

◆ Workshop: Aiko Koike "Accidental Gaze"

Date & Time: July 12 (Sun) 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Participation Fee: Free

Capacity: 8 people per session *On-site registration on the day (Numbered tickets will be distributed during busy periods, and registration will close once all slots are filled).

An art director and graphic designer, Aiko Koike, will lead a workshop where participants can encounter unexpected accidental gazes. Participants only need to bring their smartphones. They will take photos of things that catch their eye in Shibuya and create impromptu mini-books using printed paper. This may provide an opportunity to notice unexpected gazes.

◆ "Me, Shibuya, and" Exhibition

Date & Time: July 11 (Sat) 11:30 AM - 7:00 PM, July 12 (Sun) 11:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Admission Fee: Free

A participatory exhibition will collect "memories of Shibuya" woven by various generations. Visitors can post sticky notes with their "memories of spending time in Shibuya" and display photos brought from home or on their smartphones. Please come and see the accumulation of memories where the "gazes" of people who have interacted with this city in various ways intersect, whether it be days passed through commuting, time spent on holidays, or memories of living here.

◆ Gaze Talk: Rieko Nagashima (Photographer) x Ayaka Wada (Poetry and Word Artist) "The Current State of Women's Gaze in Taking and Being Taken"

Date & Time: July 11 (Sat) 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM (Reception starts 8:00 PM)

Participation Fee: ¥500 (Tax Included)

Application: https://manazashitalk03.peatix.com/

Rieko Nagashima, who has consistently questioned the state of "family" and "women" in society through her work, and Ayaka Wada, who shares her thoughts on feminism and gender based on her experience as an idol since her teens. Nagashima re-examines discourse surrounding women photographers in the 1990s in her book "From 'Our' 'Girly Photos' to Our Girly Photos," and Wada writes about her own freedom, rights, and struggles in "I Want to Say I'm Glad I Became an Idol."

The two, who have confronted the power dynamics between those who take photos and those who are photographed, will engage in a talk about observations and practices concerning the changes and current state of the era of "taking" and "being taken."

◆ Gaze Live: V.I. Acoustic Live Performance

Date & Time: July 12 (Sun) 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM (Reception: 6:00 PM)

Participation Fee: ¥1,000 (Tax Included)

Application: https://manazashilive02.peatix.com/

V.I. travels throughout Japan with a guitar, singing songs. V.I., who lives with music while traversing lands and making small connections, released the album "Watashi" in May 2026, filled with 13 songs of travel memories. Through songs and words, it will be a time where the landscapes and lives of places and hometowns emerge.

Messages from Participating Shops in "SHIBUYA PHOTO BOOK FAIR"

commune

Established in 2009 in Shimokitazawa. Currently operates a gallery, shop, and publishing label commune Press in Hatagaya, Tokyo. Also participates in art book fairs worldwide and curates exhibitions and manages artists both domestically and internationally.

https://ccommunee.com/

https://www.instagram.com/ccommunee/

Message

commune will approach the theme from multiple angles, selecting and selling art books by domestic and international photographers and artists. In addition to commune Press publications, we will also offer overseas art magazines such as Arxipelag and Closing Ceremony. We will also have commune original merchandise, introducing publications and items that cross photography, art, and culture.

POST

POST is a bookstore that regularly features art books published overseas by publisher, allowing customers to experience the worldviews of "publishers" that are often difficult to see in regular bookstores. A gallery space is also attached in the back, hosting exhibitions related to books. Since opening in 2011, POST has featured over 50 publishers from around the world. In addition to our physical store in Ebisu, we also operate the museum shop "Gallery 5" attached to the Opera City Art Gallery, the bookshop "BIBLIOTHECA" within Dover Street Market, the specialized bookstore "Shin Kenchiku Shoten" that spans architecture and art, and the curated space shop "title:" within SELECT by BAYCREW’S at Toranomon Hills.

http://post-books.info/

https://www.instagram.com/post_books/

Message

We will be selling photo books mainly by overseas artists, artist books, and books that POST has been involved in producing and publishing. In addition to popular titles from our store, we will also bring publications purchased in various parts of Europe in May. We will also be displaying a dummy book of a POST book scheduled for publication in September, so please take this opportunity to visit.

Open Room

A bookstore/gallery that opened in May 2025 in Hatsudai, Shibuya-ku. Operated by Lemon House Inc., which also manages Mai Mishio and Yuuki Oono, it sells books and exhibits photos, illustrations, etc., as well as selling merchandise and hosting live events and rakugo performances.

https://info.openroom.shop/

https://www.instagram.com/openroom__/

Message

Open Room is a bookstore/gallery in Hatsudai. This time, with the theme "Gaze on Ways of Living," we have selected books that focus on life, words, the body, the city, and memory, along with photo books by three photographers connected to Open Room. We hope to provide an opportunity to think about "seeing" and "ways of living" for those of us who live without letting go of our own gaze.

Shelf

Shelf is a bookshop specializing in foreign books, primarily photo books. You can find the books you are looking for from a wide selection of popular new photo books to rare out-of-print editions. We operate a physical store in Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, and an online store.

http://www.shelf.ne.jp/

https://www.instagram.com/shelf_bookshop/

Message

At Shelf, we will offer photo books by photographers participating in "Miracles of Gaze: Adventures of Japanese Women Photographers," as well as photo books by other notable female photographers and signed copies. We will also sell Shelf's original tote bags, which are usually only available at our store. We will also have special limited-edition color tote bags for this event! Book signings by Sakiko Nomura will be held from 4:00 PM on the 12th (Sun), followed by Ai Iwakoshi at 4:30 PM. We look forward to your visit.

Daily Practice Books

Daily Practice Books is a book community in Hiroo, Shibuya-ku, an experimental space that opens its home and blurs the public and private aspects of a bookshelf. Books are mine, yours, and nobody's. And is the space where those books are lined up a home? A bookstore? A library? The boundaries may actually be ambiguous. Sometimes we have tea and chat, creating a space that is like a shop and like a home. We usually handle used and new books in such a place, but we look forward to meeting many people in a more open space than usual this time.

http://dailypracticebooks.com/

https://www.instagram.com/dailypracticebooks/

Message

We will exhibit and sell photo books and zines mainly by photographers like Mai Komura and Kyohei Hattori, whom we have met through opening our home as a book community in Hiroo, Shibuya-ku. They speak to us about fragments of everyday life, their own and others' bodies, and the gazes directed at them, not as distant figures, but as close presences. We also plan to sell Daily Practice Books original merchandise.

Sister

A select boutique that opened in 2008, mainly dealing in women's apparel. It offers a wide range of items, including designer brands selected with a free sensibility from Japan and abroad, vintage items, art books, and lifestyle goods. In addition to planning various corporate projects and collaborating on goods with films and art, it also holds events related to feminism and gender issues every year on International Women's Day.

https://sister-tokyo.com/

https://www.instagram.com/sister_tokyo/

Message

We plan to offer a wide range of items, including merchandise sold at the "BEYOND FEMALE GAZE - Rethinking Our Gaze -" exhibition held at Shibuya PARCO in March, as well as related goods associated with films. You can also view art books selected mainly from female artists.

SALT AND PEPPER

This year marks our 8th year since opening. We have conducted exhibitions and publishing activities with a sensory approach, without being bound by rules or relying solely on subjective judgment, maintaining an open stance. We actively procure items that fit the store's concept for self-published books and actively support independent publishing artists. Since the beginning of this year, we have also challenged new projects, such as publishing zines by 13 Japanese artists to introduce them to overseas audiences and participating in overseas fairs.

http://www.sandp.tokyo/

https://www.instagram.com/saltandpepper223/

Message

We will primarily sell zines by 13 Japanese artists launched in May. Among the 13 artists are female photographers, illustrators, and collage artists, but we gathered artists connected to our store without restrictions on gender or technique. We will also carefully select and bring titles published by our store, including works by Australian-based female photographer SLY MORIKAWA and Japanese female illustrator WADA SHIOMI.

Aoyama Book Center

A one-floor bookstore located two basement levels below Omotesando Station, a 5-minute walk away. In addition to general books, we offer a wide range of Japanese and foreign books, including photo books, foreign magazines, and other art, design, architecture, and fashion titles. We also have a rich selection of foreign literature, essays, and zines. Our attached event space hosts talk events with authors, and our gallery space features exhibitions of illustrations and photographs by artists.

https://aoyamabc.jp/

https://www.instagram.com/aoyamabookcenter/

Message

We will offer a selection unique to our store, featuring a wide range of genres, including not only photo books but also essays by photographers, readings about photography, and literary works. We will also exhibit and sell our original "Anywhere Book Case," a bookshelf that allows you to carry books, so please take a look.

UTRECHT

UTRECHT is a bookshop that opened in 2002. We sell books that are rarely seen in general bookstores, focusing on domestic and international art books produced and published by independent publishers and artists. The store also houses the gallery space NOW IDeA. We are involved in various book-related activities, including co-hosting the "TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR," publishing activities, and domestic distribution of overseas independent publishers.

https://utrecht.jp/

https://www.instagram.com/utrecht_nowidea/

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We plan to sell popular photobooks from UTRECHT, as well as unique items that allow for a multifaceted enjoyment of photography, such as found photos, collages, and cards. We will also have original merchandise recommended as souvenirs or gifts. A sticker will be given to the first 2,000 yen or more purchasers on a first-come, first-served basis.

me and you

me and you is a base for expanding imagination and storytelling to distant people, starting with dialogue between individuals. With an editorial perspective that questions what is taken for granted, we engage in projects that consider corporate and organizational issues through media and community management. We are planning and producing "My Gaze, Your Gaze."

https://meandyou.co.jp/

https://meandyou.net/

https://instagram.com/meandyou_mag/

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Our web media "me and you little magazine" is cultivated with strong individuals who respect me and you. From this, we will introduce photo books, zines, stickers, and postcards by photographers we trust. We also plan to carry the newly released me and you magazine "me and you little magazine vol.1 Special Feature: Because Love and Life Are Both Uncertain," as well as tote bags and stickers.