Tadayuki Kato's mental index.
＜Ya＞ Vegetables

2025.11.28

Photo： Tadayuki Kato

Edit： Naoya Tsuneshige

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Doing what you love and being surrounded by things you love. Beams' famous buyer, Kato Tadayuki, is a rare hobbyist. As a result of constantly keeping his antennae up in all sorts of genres, the number of people, things and events that interest him is immeasurable. If Kato Tadayuki's mind were to be put into a book, the index would probably look something like this. The first installment is "Ya = Vegetables".

Vegetables and humans are similar.

Commune H

Speaking of Kato-san, it's definitely "vegetables." This topic cannot be overlooked. Apparently, he recently published a book on vegetables.

Kato

It's finally finished. My long-awaited vegetable book. It's a book of photographs only, with no text, but I've compiled a selection of photos I've taken over the past nine years into one volume. I actually have four or five times as many photos as this, but if I included them all, the book would end up being as thick as a dictionary (laughs).

Commune H

Can you tell us how you came to publish it?

Kato

I think that vegetables and us humans are similar in some way. Of course, vegetables don't talk or walk, but they do think. Vegetables have their own thoughts, too. I hope that people can feel the energy that emanates from the vegetables themselves, rather than through words.