If life is hard, create.
Mr. Adachi, the owner of "Gasaki Base" in Amagasaki, acquired
300 tsubo of land and two houses for almost nothing.
This story was born from Mr. Adachi's continuous creation,
even while he experienced rock bottom.
"Economic rationality" is not just one thing.
This book explores ways of living through a dialogue with the author, who opened "Tsukureru Honya" (A Bookshop Where You Can Create) while struggling with life's difficulties.
Gasaki Base in Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture. This renovated factory is a unique place where you can drink coffee and learn DIY.
Due to his connection with Gasaki Base, the owner, Shigeyuki Adachi, received one house in Shimane for free. While pulling out trees from that house, he ended up receiving another house behind it.
Why did such a thing happen? This book unravels this mystery along with Mr. Adachi's childhood struggles, family, DIY, work, money... all common concerns for people today.
Creating connects people and things.
▼ Speaker
Shigeyuki Adachi
Born in Shimane Prefecture. He opened Gasaki Base in Amagasaki, where he offers DIY delivery services and teaches how to create. After 2025, he plans to renovate the two old folk houses he received in Shimane to create new bases.
▼ Interviewer
Dai Hirata
Born in Akita Prefecture. Web editor and writer. He opened "Tsukureru Honya" (A Bookshop Where You Can Create) DIY BOOKS in Amagasaki in October 2023. That's when he met Mr. Adachi. He holds workshops on how to make zines, etc.
Four-six size / 144p
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Table of Contents
7 Introduction
8 Why did events like "Warashibe Chōja" (Straw Millionaire) happen?
11 Why are there more vacant houses?
12 What is economic rationality?
14 DIY BOOKS at the end of exhaustion
18 Life is nothing but DIY
22 Gasaki Base = "Diaper Changing Station"
28 In Shimane, after the scorched earth
31 The path of DIY that began to become popular
34 DIY, love, and "nest"
36 Those angular days
46 The birth and evolution of Gasaki Base
57 Buying cuts off opportunities and connections for self-improvement
60 The Maker Movement, bricolage, and editing
64 Uncontrived beauty and "normalcy"
67 It's okay to have various forms
70 Meeting a new family
75 Foster parenting as a form of family and "ripple effects"
81 I wanted Gasaki Base to die properly
87 Why "Gasaki" instead of "Ama"?
90 Moving your hands connects you to the past
93 Let children do DIY (adults first)
103 Dichotomy and order
104 Life resists increasing entropy and creates "systems"
108 Humans are beings who create their own "systems"
111 I tried pulling out a tree
114 To a house with love and roots
118 Parental affection, war, and farmers
120 Returning to the roots in reverse
123 To each logic
125 Creation fosters connections
127 Logical thinking is not just one thing
129 Living rooted
132 In place of an ending. Writing and creating
136 Afterword
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