Michiyo Miyake, The Vision You Saw, That I Cannot See｜stab-bound zine

A poetry and visual zine tracing the imagined inner landscape of an actual Japanese woman who migrated from a fishing village in Kyushu to Sumatra in the 1930s. Driven by poverty into overseas labor during a time when many women were trafficked for prostitution, her journey spans colonial Southeast Asia and ends in the Tatura Internment Camp in Australia during the Pacific War.

The zine features poetry printed on translucent tracing paper, layered over landscape images printed on delicate calligraphy paper. As the pages turn, the poems emerge through the images, creating a quiet interplay between text and place—a reflection on migration, memory, and lives left out of history.

Michiyo Miyake: Writer and translator, born in Japan and based in Australia.

2025｜English｜118 × 156 × 2 mm｜Stab-bound

Each piece is handbound; slight variations in size may occur. Dimensions are approximate.