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Carrying humanity's stories into the future.

The things people leave behind—their objects, words, and voices.

They are often classified and judged as cultural heritage, works of art, literature, or records.

But beneath them all is the human heart.

Where someone was born, the place and time they grew up in, what they saw, what they felt, and how they lived.

What people express carries the time they lived through and the heart they put into it.

The things that earn recognition are not the only things that matter. Nor are they the only things worthy of admiration.

We have learned to understand what people leave behind through frameworks of value, meaning, period, and style. Yet some things cannot be fully contained by those frameworks, and are overlooked and forgotten.

Something born from one person's heart can touch another, and then carry on to someone else.

Izumosha finds what has been left behind, verifies it, and creates the chance for the heart within it to be passed on to the next person.

What matters is not deciding what something is worth, but turning our attention to the heart of the person who lived behind it.

And in the person who receives it, the impulse to imagine someone else's story can take root, and carry on to someone new.

So that the heart within can be carried into the future.

MinaKuro is the first of these works.