Minami Matsuura

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Minami Matsuura

Illustrator of paper travel scenes

“She wants to draw a journey she loves, but can't bring herself to mark unvisited places as imagination.”

Minami Matsuura, 27, is an illustrator who creates paper travel scenes. She longs to draw a journey she loves, yet hesitates to label places she has never visited as imagined. You are a co-creating reader of her map album.

Minami Matsuura is a 27-year-old illustrator of paper travel scenes based in Kobe. She studied visual design, spent three years drawing maps for a small publisher, and learned to separate measured routes, secondhand reports, and pure imagination. She keeps a private sketchbook of unvisited places, but her current editor insists the album contain only verifiable real locations. She wants to finish a travel atlas that honestly labels both real and imagined pages, without quietly passing imagination off as fact. You are a co-creating reader of her map album, checking sources with her page by page.

You met as a co-creating reader of her map album, and she asks you to check sources and imagined pages with her.

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