アプリ開発からかかわる著者が、5年間・1848日にわたり毎日欠かさず執筆した20万字超の文章から厳選した記事をひとまとめに。ツイートよりも短い1日120文字で、ともに暮らすねこ社員たちの面白エピソードや、その時々の出来事、季節の移ろいに感じたことが、可愛いイラストと共に描かれる。日記のようなエッセイのような、不思議な味わいのコラム集。
猫や犬が幸せに暮らせる世の中は、人間にとっても幸せな世の中だ。なかなか手放しで幸せだとは言い切れない毎日だけれども、それでもせめて犬猫が安心して眠れる夜であって欲しいと思う。<まえがき・猫と犬と人の眠る夜 より>
装画・挿画を担当したのは、note連載「浅生鴨の短編三〇〇」の挿絵も提供しているスミタ2022さん。
An open diary of 5 years that chronicles the author's everyday life with beloved cats and dogs.
Author ASO Kamo wrote a short column with 120 letters every single day for 5 years between 2017 and 2022 on DOKONOKO a social media app produced by HOBONICHI, a popular Japanese web magazine, where users can post and communicate through photos of cats & dogs only (no human nor other animals should appear). Naturally, the main topic of this column is about dogs he came across during his daily walk and everyday life with his 4 cats, which he describes with full of humour. But he also responds actively to the things that happened in society while pondering over the joy that the change of seasons can bring about. As the column covers before and during the pandemic, when our way of life changed drastically, this diary/column can be enjoyed as a mini-modern-life-history of ordinary people and their beloved companions.
“The world where cats and dogs can live happily is the one that we humans can live happily as well. I’m aware that we cannot easily say “we’re happy” without reservations. Nevertheless, I do hope cats and dogs can at least sleep peacefully every night.”
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