This is a series of conversations between Kataoka Mami, Director of the National Art Research Center, and guests active in various fields. The guest for the third conversation in the series was essayist Uchida Yayako.

Born as the only child of actor Kiki Kirin and musician Uchida Yuya, Uchida Yayako attended schools in Tokyo, New York, Geneva, and Paris before returning to Japan at the age of 19. She is married to actor Motoki Masahiro.
In addition to her main occupation of essayist , she is a translator, narrator, musician, and actor. As an actor, she won the Newcomer Award at the 31st Japan Academy Film Prize in 2007 for her role in the film Tokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad and has appeared in numerous other films including Blue Wind Blows and The Wandering Moon.

Uchida also has many connections to the art world. She serves as narrator for No Art, No Life, an NHK Educational TV program that introduces self-taught artists driven to create iniminitable works, and her book BLANK PAGE: Journey to Fill the Emptiness (Japanese only) includes her conversations with artist Yokoo Tadanori and photographer Ishiuchi Miyako. She is also co-director of Mugonkan (Museum of Silence, Ueda, Nagano Prefecture), a museum dedicated to art students who died in WWII.

In this conversation, Uchida talks, among other things, about the first art museum she visited of her own volition in high school, her impressions of the cinemas she visited as a college student, moments in everyday life that speak of art, and her thoughts on becoming the co-director of an art museum.