This paper examines communication in the quantum age. While communication using digital tools is crucial in the digital age, face-to-face human connections, which can be called ima koko communication, have become even more significant in the quantum age. The Japanese expression ima koko is a concept of time and space that is compatible with the notions of quantum physics and that implies consciousness. The purpose of this paper is to construct a new model of perception and recognition that would be useful for understanding and practicing ima koko communication in the quantum age. To this end, I first reviewed studies in English, Barad’s agential realism and Boje’s theory of quantum storytelling, and studies in Japanese, Gunji’s theory of life, and Masuda’s theory of katari that attempt to apply the notions of quantum physics to social science and practice. Next, I explored Western philosophies, Kant’s epistemology, Dilthey’s hermeneutics, Heidegger’s ontology, and Husserl and Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, and Japanese philosophies, Kumakura’s philosophy concerning Japanese and Motoori’s theory of mono no aware wo siru kokoro (the mind that knows the pathos of things), related to communication in the quantum age. Finally, I constructed a new model of perception and cognition for ima koko communication in the quantum age by connecting Kant’s and Motoori’s models through Merleau-Ponty’s model.