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.
- ISBN:
- 9781898823063
- 9781898823063
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Category:
- Places & peoples: general & pictorial works
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
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01-04-2011
- Publisher:
- Global Oriental Ltd
- Country of origin:
- United Kingdom
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions (mm):
- 216x138x15mm
- Weight:
- 0.92kg
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