2024 (Spring) Hobonichi Weeks Hardcover Planner // Jin Kitamura: Love it (Panda) Yellow Plaid
Illustrator and children’s book author Jin Kitamura created the cute illustration featured on this Weeks book.
The image shows a panda happily playing with a tire. It was drawn in crayon for a laid-back look. The image is so cute that you’ll never “tire” of looking at it.
The checkered lines in the background are also hand-drawn by Kitamura. There is variance in the line thickness and space between each line, giving it a gentle look. Kimatura also hand-wrote the title “Love it” into the illustration itself.
The cover material is white with the same texture as a painting canvas.
The front cover and book spine are foil-printed with the year 2024 in black, for a nice and simple look.
The back cover features the image of Kitamura’s signature.
The cover has been constructed as a light hardcover book with some give to it so it still bends.
When you order this Hobonichi Techo Weeks, you’ll receive a clear, adhesive corner pocket you can stick anywhere you like.
The Weeks book has space for writing in plans or journal entries, and it also has 69 pages of grid paper memo pages in the back (73 pages in the English edition Weeks). The back of the book contains informational pages, including An Interview with Myself and Seasonal Sweets to Make at Home.
| Size |
H: 188 x W: 94 x T: 10 mm / H: 7.4" x W: 3.7" x T: 0.4" *Specifications may vary slightly |
|---|---|
| Main material | Rayon / Paper |
| Language | Japanese |
|---|---|
| Pages | 240 pages |
| Paper Type / Binding | Thin, light Tomoe River paper resistant to bleeding and designed for planners / Stitch-binding |
| Graph Paper Size | 3.55 mm |
| Start of Week | Monday-start week |
| Yearly Calendar | 2023, 2024, 2025 |
| Yearly Index | Apr. 2024 - Mar. 2025 (2 pages) |
| Monthly Calendar | Mar. 2024 - Apr. 2025 (28 pages) |
| Daily Quotes | One per week (Japanese) |
| Weekly Calendar |
Feb. 26, 2024 - Apr. 6, 2025 (116 pages) *All weekly pages include quotes. |
| Graph Paper | 73 pages |
| Bonus Pages | Shorthand Note-Taking / Using Common Items to Measure Size / Favorites / My 100 / An Interview with Myself / Seasonal Sweets to Make at Home / 365 Days Check-Off Sheet / Contact List / Personal Notes |
| Listed Information | Week of the year / Moon phase (weekly pages include every phase, monthly calendars only include full and new moon) |
About Jin Kitamura
Illustrator/picture book author.
Born in Tokyo in 1981. Author of Kasha!, Pappo (Poplar Publishing), Good morning! (Fukuinkan Shoten), Manjiro and the Rice Ball, Manjiro and the Watermelon and Manjiro and the Baby Racoon (all written by Izumi Honda, published by Fukuinkan Shoten). Also illustrated for And Life Goes On (written by Gen Hoshino, published by Bungeishunju), The Planet I Protect (written by Akane Kanda, published by Shueisha), and AC Japan’s “Japan Guide Dog Association” TV commercial.
Note: The Hobonichi Techo's Tomoe River paper is designed to prevent bleed-through, but some fountain pens and water-based ink pens are not compatible with this paper. When switching to a new pen, we recommend testing the pen somewhere in the book, such as the back memo pages, to see if the ink bleeds through or takes an especially long time to dry.
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