Hobonichi Techo Hon / A5 / Yumi Kitagishi: White Cat and Rabbit’s Tea Room

The first HON to feature illustrator and picture book author Yumi Kitagishi, and her fourth collaboration with Hobonichi. The front shows her white cat greeting visitors while rabbits brew tea and serve shortcake; the back shows animals reading in a house made of books.

The HON is a hardcover techo with the cover built in. Inside it has the same contents as the A5 Cousin: one page per day plus vertical weekly pages.

• A5 HON, English edition, January start, Monday start
• One page per day, plus weekly and monthly calendars (Dec 2026 – Mar 2028)
• Thread-stitched binding that opens flat at 180 degrees
• Tomoe River paper, 3.7 mm grid, 544 pages
• Size: 8.4" x 6" x 0.8" · approx. 482 g
• HON pencil board sold separately

About Hobonichi Techo

Hobonichi Techo was created in 2002 by Shigesato Itoi — the influential Japanese copywriter, creative director, and writer of the Nintendo/EarthBound “Mother” game series — as an extension of his long-running web magazine Hobo Nikkan Itoi Shinbun (“Almost Daily Itoi News”), which has published online since 1998. It is produced in Japan by Hobonichi Co., Ltd.

The planner is built around ultra-thin, famously smooth Tomoe River paper, prized by fountain pen users worldwide for its ink-friendliness and near-zero bleed-through. Each year Hobonichi releases a new lineup of cover designs and collaborations with Japanese and international artists, designers, and brands — a roster that has grown into one of the most anticipated and collected release calendars in stationery. Designs regularly sell out within days of launch.

This item is part of the 2027 Hobonichi Techo collection.