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Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods by Florent Chavouet (Paperback, 2011)
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ISBN-13: 9784805311370, 978-4805311370. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during his adventures. Florent Chavouet begins his introduction by observing that, "Tokyo is said to be the most beautiful of ugly cities.".
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This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist's warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir. 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 color pencils and a sketchpad, and visit different neighborhoods. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during his adventures. It isn't the Tokyo of packaged tours and glossy guidebooks, but a grittier, vibrant place, full of ordinary people going about their daily lives and the scenes and activities that unfold on the streets of a bustling metropolis. Here you find business men and women, hipsters, students, grandmothers, shopkeepers, policemen, and other urban types and tribes in all manner of dress and hairstyles. A temple nestles among skyscrapers; the corner grocery anchors a diverse assortment of dwellings, cafes, and shops--often tangled in electric lines. The artist mixes styles and tags his pictures with wry comments and observations. Realistically rendered advertisements or posters of pop stars contrast with cartoon sketches of iconic objects or droll vignettes, like a housewife walking her pet pig, a Godzilla statue in a local park, and an urban fishing pond that charges 400 yen per half hour. This very personal guide to Tokyo is organized by neighborhood with hand-drawn maps that provide an overview of each neighborhood, but what really defines them is what caught the artist's eye and attracted his formidable drawing talent. Florent Chavouet begins his introduction by observing that, Tokyo is said to be the most beautiful of ugly cities. With wit, a playful sense of humor, and the multicolor pencils of his kit, he sets aside the question of urban ugliness or beauty and captures the Japanese essence of a great city in this truly vital portrait.Product Identifiers
PublisherTuttle Publishing
ISBN-139784805311370
eBay Product ID (ePID)99870723
Product Key Features
Book TitleTokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods
AuthorFlorent Chavouet
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicTravel Writing
Publication Year2011
Number of Pages208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height254mm
Item Width184mm
Item Weight680g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorFlorent Chavouet
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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