Kyoto, November 14, 2025

“When I was eighteen, I would go to a local square on the Kamogawa and perform with my guitar. The first time I did it, a couple of boys I didn’t know walked by. They stopped and sat down on the ground in front of me. I didn’t know many songs by heart then. So I kept singing the same two songs, over and over, for hours. They stayed and listened to me play the entire time. One of those boys is now my husband.”

Friday afternoon, a modern house near the train, her husband opens the door, offers us slippers and green tea.

Three black cats, one hiding under the bed, shy, she says.

We use our phones to speak, she gives us two of her CDs, they wave us goodbye on the soundless street.

From the People series, photographed by Ana Roque. Kamin carries the Pouch in Nero.