nika｜Words and ambient sound

Description

nika — 1,672 works of Japanese literature, in English.

Sōseki. Dazai. Miyazawa. Akutagawa. Ichiyō. Ranpo. And hundreds of

quieter voices that never made it out of Japanese — until now.

nika is a reading app built on Japan's public-domain library:

1,672 complete works — novels, short stories, essays, and poems —

carefully translated into English and given room to breathe.

Not excerpts. Not summaries. Whole works, from the first line to the last.

It is made for slow reading. No feed. No noise. No likes.

Just you and the page.

1,672 works, one library

From famous novels everyone knows to a single forgotten poem.

A century of Japanese writing you can read end to end.

nika index

A hand-made way in — find a work by mood, season, or the shape of a

feeling, not by ranking.

Fragments

One luminous passage at a time. A line to carry with you through the day.

A reader you can shape

Serif or sans, weight, size, line spacing, and margins — in dark,

light (paper), or sepia. Read vertically or horizontally, each

remembered on its own.

Keep what stays with you

Notes, highlights, and a scrapbook for the lines you never want to lose.

nika is not a place to be seen.

It is a place to read, and to be quiet for a while.

1,672 works. Start with one.