• 18 KG, 18 YEARS

    Location: Shonan, Kanagawa Two weeks after eighteen birthday, I left home carrying everything I owned.

  • KITCHEN SHIFT, 4 AM

    Locatioon: Naha, Okinawa Work started before sunrise—cold floors, quiet hours, steady rhythm.

  • AFTERNOON

    Location:Chatan, Okinawa‍ ‍No plan that day—the beach gave me time to think, nothing more.

  • BETWEEN JOBS

    Location: Bangkok, Thailand‍ ‍I had just left Okinawa—the festival was loud, but I wasn't lost.

  • DAY LABOUR

    Location: Somewhere, Tokyo Signed up that morning, started hours later, paid enough to continue.

  • QUESTIONS

    Location: Daiba, Tokyo I opened it hoping for answers and found better questions instead.

  • WEEKENDS

    Location: Shibuya, Tokyo Most weekends I went to Shibuya—that's where I met people who stayed.

  • STEADY

    Location: Shinsaibashi, Osaka This part of the journey felt steady—we shared more than a building.

  • BORROWED

    Location: Umeda, Osaka I looked like someone who had made it, but everything was borrowed.

  • DEBT

    Location: Umeda, Osaka 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　I owe more than money here—time, trust, space—and I intend to repay.

  • THE LECTURE

    Location: London, England　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　He described how power works—some evenings clarify what you suspect.

  • UNIFORM

    Location: London, England Formal suit to kitchen uniform—fluent in both, belonging to neither.

  • AFTER WORK

    Location: London, England Every night I cycled to the river—not to escape, but to separate.

The Meaning of My Tattoo

  • The Climbing Figure

    A boy ascends fragile steps into a crumbling clock. Time is not pursued but climbed. Each step deliberate, the structure breaking, the path unclear. The image records a view I held at eighteen: that effort alone could remake circumstance. I was partly right. The steps remain real. So does the breaking clock.

  • Mountain landscape with snow-capped peaks and a modern house in the foreground, surrounded by grassy hills under a cloudy sky.

    L'existence précède l'essence

    Existence precedes essence. We are not born with fixed identity. We become through choice, not assumption. I inked this after leaving home, before understanding what it demanded. The phrase still asks its question daily: if choice creates self, who authors the conditions of choice?

  • indow in a mountainous landscape, surrounded by grass and plants.

    999

    The inverse of 666. Difficulty transformed into structure. I got this in Okinawa at eighteen, with the other two. The number meant: what breaks you can rebuild you. If you use it as foundation, not wound. Not metaphor. Practice.