Full name: Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods

Author: Florent Chavouet Year: 2009 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Graphic Novels, Non Fiction, Art Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9784805311370 4805311371

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 colored pencils and a sketchpad, to visit different neighborhoods. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during his adventures, a gritty, vibrant place, full of ordinary people going about their daily lives. Realistically rendered city views or posters of pop stars contrast with cartoon sketches of iconic objects or droll vignettes, like a housewife walking her pet pig and a Godzilla statue in a local park.With wit, a playful sense of humor, and the colored pencils of his kit, Florent Chavouet sets aside the question of urban ugliness or beauty and captures the Japanese essence of a great city. Similar books: Lost Japan by Alex Kerr Looking for the Lost by Alan Booth The Roads to Sata by Alan Booth The Inland Sea by Donald Richie Learning to Bow by Bruce Feiler Japanland by Karin Muller Hokkaido Highway Blues by Will Ferguson A Year in Japan by Kate T. Williamson The Lady and the Monk by Pico Iyer Dogs and Demons by Alex Kerr Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella Bird Pictures from the Water Trade by John David Morley Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey Speed Tribes by Karl Taro Greenfeld Meanwhile in San Francisco by Wendy MacNaughton Picture This by Lynda Barry The Writer's Map by Huw Lewis-Jones The Art of Jaime Hernandez by Todd Hignite How to Be an Explorer of the World by Keri Smith You Are Here by Katharine Harmon