Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Tokyo on Foot A graphic memoir and sketchbook, with hand-drawn maps
Full description- Publisher: Tuttle Shokai Inc
- Published: 15 July 2011
- Format: Paperback 192 pages
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- Categories: Graphic Novels: True Stories & Non-fiction | Sociology: Customs & Traditions | Guidebooks | Travel Writing
- ISBN 13: 9784805311370 ISBN 10: 4805311371
- Sales rank: 14,457
Full description for Tokyo on Foot
Florent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a company there. Each day he would set forth, with a pouch full of colored pencils and a sketchpad, to visit different neighborhoods. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during his adventures, a gritty, vibrant place, full of ordinary people going about their daily lives. Realistically rendered city views or posters of pop stars contrast with cartoon sketches of iconic objects or droll vignettes, like a housewife walking her pet pig and a Godzilla statue in a local park.With wit, a playful sense of humor, and the colored pencils of his kit, Florent Chavouet sets aside the question of urban ugliness or beauty and captures the Japanese essence of a great city.
