The origins of the pencil date to the ancient Romans, who used to write with a device known as a stylus--a metal stick, usually lead, which was used to scratch words onto papyrus.
Kei Kagami's shoes are odd contraptions of wood, leather and prostheticlike metal trussing one senses a broken culture rebuilding from scratch while Masaya Kushino's "Wind Horse" and "Storm Horse" hoof-shoes, complete with flowing tails at the heels, suggest centaur-princesses, thundering dynasties on vast Asian plains.