Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhood

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 208 pages, Full-Colour Illustrations throughout

Publisher:Tuttle Shokai Inc

Imprint:Tuttle Shokai Inc

ISBN:9784805311370

Published:15 Jul 2011

Weight:612g

Dimensions:253 x 185 x 19 (mm)

ISBN13 9780804852326

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

2009年法國國際地理節托勒密獎得主

導遊書？探險記？

個性畫家獨步領略東京生活的千姿百態

一個法國人在漫步於東京的旅途中所繪的塗鴉。

作者離家6千英里，在東京居住了6個月，騎着一輛主婦型自行車，帶着一把摺疊椅，向城市的瀝青路出 發，開始了一段領略東京生活的獨步征程。

這不是一部遊記，也不是一部探險記，這本書是個性畫家用彩色畫筆記錄下的奇特的東京生活。畫家以法國人的視角，給自己的所見所聞配上生動、有趣的註解，通本讓人驚喜的小插畫，房屋建築及各色人物勾畫出了這個繁華都市的舊貌與新顏，在小小的畫紙上呈現出東京獨特的人文魅力。

A graphic memoir and sketchbook, with hand-drawn maps

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 businessmen and businesswomen, hipsters, students, grandmothers, shopkeepers, police officers, 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 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 genuinely vital portrait.

作者簡介

弗洛朗·夏福埃，法國畫家，2006年6月，他因女友克萊爾前往東京參加總公司培訓，而跟隨她一同租住下來。他從廢棄的停車場裏撿了一輛自行車，騎着它穿梭於東京的大街小巷。在6個月的旅行中，他通過細膩而充滿童趣的觀察，用彩色鉛筆畫出了一個非同於常人眼中的東京，呈現出這座繁華都市在傳統與現代文化衝擊下的人文風情。繼《東京散步》之後，畫家回國小住並再次前往日本，完成了第二本畫冊《真鍋島》。欲知更多信息，歡迎登錄畫家博客http://www.florentchavouet.com/home.htm

Florent Chavouet is a young graphic artist and author living in Paris. When he returned from Japan, he realized that all the observing and sketching he had done in Tokyo led to his evolution as an artist. This is his first book. florentchavouet.com