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Tokyo Sanpo (2009)

by Florent Chavouet(Favorite Author)

4.25 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

2809700761 (ISBN13: 9782809700763)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Picquier

review 1: Absolutely delightful. I'm so glad that, when I saw this book faced at the library, I checked it out and brought it home rather than idly glancing at a few pages and calling it good. I loved how the artist's drawings captured Tokyo through the lens of a foreigner's every day experience. The drawings varied in style and communicated the personality, attitude, and airs of both the artist and his subjects. Neither photos nor words could capture the experience in quite the same way. The author's wry commentary, in words and pictures, made me laugh out loud.
review 2: I reserved this because Gerard Way tweeted about it.A French twenty-something spends six months living in Tokyo because his girlfriend has an internship. While there, he sketches every day with colored... more pencils. This isn't a normal sketchbook - he shows detailed maps of each neighborhood in Tokyo, prefaced with a picture of that neighborhood's koban (police box).Sometimes, he sketches the labels that come on expensive fruit, or copies of receipts from cafes, tickets that get left when he parks his bike somewhere he shouldn't, the contents of a cup noodle meal, etc.This made me remember a lot of little details from my own trips to Japan, especially the "thousands" of potted plants that appear outside many people's houses/store fronts.A couple of comments made me uncomfortable - overtones of transphobia, and also a couple comments about fat people (showing a group of high school girls & then saying "There's always one fat one") left me cold, preventing this from receiving a higher rating. He has some other observations of people that feel a little mean-spirited, too, :/ less

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