PAPERSKY Zen Hiker Issue magazine on weathered wood, cover showing a hiker with staff on a forest trail.
PAPERSKY Zen Hiker Issue magazine lying open on weathered wood, cover showing stone statues in red bibs.
PAPERSKY magazine open on a mottled green surface, showing a surfer carrying a board beside photos and text.
PAPERSKY magazine open to a spread on Leki Nagahara, showing a man carrying a blue surfboard on a beach.
Open magazine page titled "The Shikoku Zen Trail by the Numbers" with text and a red trail map.
Magazine opened flat to a "Zen Trail" spread with sunbeams streaming through a dark cedar forest.
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PAPERSKY Zen Hiker Issue magazine on weathered wood, cover showing a hiker with staff on a forest trail.
PAPERSKY Zen Hiker Issue magazine lying open on weathered wood, cover showing stone statues in red bibs.
PAPERSKY magazine open on a mottled green surface, showing a surfer carrying a board beside photos and text.
PAPERSKY magazine open to a spread on Leki Nagahara, showing a man carrying a blue surfboard on a beach.
Open magazine page titled "The Shikoku Zen Trail by the Numbers" with text and a red trail map.
Magazine opened flat to a "Zen Trail" spread with sunbeams streaming through a dark cedar forest.
SKU: PSU001

PAPERSKY U.S. Edition #001 / Shikoku Zen Hiker Issue

By Hightide USA
$18.00 USD
Minus Plus

A brand-new publication from Hightide USA: the English edition of PAPERSKY is here.

The very first issue is Shikoku Zen Hiker, with features selected by PAPERSKY founder Lucas B.B. and Yuichi Munehiro of Hightide USA.

"The Zen Trail, a unique 'loop trail' spanning 1,200 km, was created 1,250 years ago by the Buddhist monk Kukai (Kobo Daishi). The trail connects 88 temples as checkpoints on the hiker's symbolic path toward enlightenment. Each of the four prefectures the trail crosses represents a stage of the journey (TOKUSHIMA = Awakening / KOCHI = Training / EHIME = Enlightenment / KAGAWA = Nirvana) that the 'Zen Hiker' must pass through before reaching their final nirvana."
— An excerpt from PAPERSKY #70, Zen Hiker Issue

PAPERSKY is conceived as an "in-flight magazine read on the ground." Edited from unique perspectives, it shares stories born from the nature, culture, and daily life of places all over Japan.

Pages: 80
Size: A5
U.S. edition creative direction by Wyatt Conlon

Printed in Japan

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