Hobonichi Weeks 2027 (Japanese): Natal Design - Lucky Swallow

The Weeks is Hobonichi's slim, pocketable planner: a weekly horizontal spread on the left, a full page of grid memo on the right, in a book narrow enough to live in a jacket pocket. This edition comes from Natal Design, a Tokyo apparel brand started in 1999 by Koji Tsukada and Shinsuke Goto that works across clothing and camping gear. Its Lucky Swallow motif covers the book end to end, swallows being birds of good fortune, printed across a flat black ground.

The swallows carry a texture applied only to them, so the pattern is something you feel as well as see. The spine is a vivid turquoise against all that black, and the brand's logo and its statement of intent are foil-pressed in gold on the front and back.

Features

• Japanese edition, January start, Monday start

• Raised texture on the swallows alone, so the pattern can be felt

• Turquoise spine and gold foil logo against a flat black cover

• Slim at 188 x 94 x 11 mm (7.4 x 3.7 x 0.4 in), narrow enough for a jacket pocket

• Light hardcover with a little give, stitch-bound so it packs flat

• Tomoe River paper, thin and light but resistant to feathering and bleed with fountain pen ink

• A clear adhesive corner pocket is included, to stick wherever you want the storage