A unique take on modern life in Japan’s capital city. A Japan of trains, every day to and fro, carriage scenes and theatre, vistas from the window, advertising posters. Each to be savoured through a specific Tokyo line – the Odakyu. Pitched as creative text and line-graphics, Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line offers on-track and off-track observations. A gallery of mirrors, musings, memories. This is less documentary than iconography, a poetics of Japanese routine and etiquette. It offers a wry diary of month-and-weekday observations, a ‘map’ of Shinjuku as key station and gathering-place, a run of notable Tokyo locations – from the National bunraku theatre to a Kawasaki sludge recycling centre. Other Odakyu travel involves the Hakone open air art gallery, Narita as both airport and temple complex, Yokohama as history and Chinatown. Essential reading for first-time, and second-time visitors, and even regular commuters.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781898823063
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-898823-06-3
- Verlag: Global Books Ltd
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.04.2011
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2011
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 457 g
- Seiten: 214
- Format (B x H x T): 136 x 216 x 15 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt