Morioka Shoten

Moriokia Shoten. Inoue Bldg 2 #305, Nihonbashi-Kayabacho 2-17-13, Chuo-ku.
This evening I attended an opening party. It wasn’t at a gallery or a museum. It was the opening of an exclusive word-of-mouth bookstore on the third floor of a delightfully vintage building overlooking Kamajima-gawa in Kayabacho.
Morioka Shoten specialises in early 20th century design, photography, art & photography books – mainly from Europe. Morioka-san, a young man who learned the trade at one of the venerable Jimbocho booksellers, has a small but impressive collection of books by Czech designer Josef Čapek & his brother Karl as well as a wide variety of other interesting books.
I’m looking forward to going back on an evening when it isn’t so crowded and hot to spend more time perusing the books.