The Hourglass

The Hourglass · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.

On the cover of The Kōenji Café, the motif is identified as “The Hourglass.” For forty years, customers have told him about lives they never lived. Their stories are beginning to echo one another.

The motif, its illustration, and its appearances can be compared. A resemblance proves neither that the same object has traveled nor that two stories share a continuity.