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

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

2009年法国国际地理节托勒密奖得主

导游书？探险记？

个性画家独步领略东京生活的千姿百态

一个法国人在漫步于东京的旅途中所绘的涂鸦。

作者离家6千英里，在东京居住了6个月，骑着一辆主妇型自行车，带着一把折叠椅，向城市的沥青路出 发，开始了一段领略东京生活的独步征程。

这不是一部游记，也不是一部探险记，这本书是个性画家用彩色画笔记录下的奇特的东京生活。画家以法国人的视角，给自己的所见所闻配上生动、有趣的注解，通本让人惊喜的小插画，房屋建筑及各色人物勾画出了这个繁华都市的旧貌与新颜，在小小的画纸上呈现出东京独特的人文魅力。

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.

作者简介

弗洛朗·夏福埃，法国画家，2006年6月，他因女友克莱尔前往东京参加总公司培训，而跟随她一同租住下来。他从废弃的停车场里捡了一辆自行车，骑着它穿梭于东京的大街小巷。在6个月的旅行中，他通过细腻而充满童趣的观察，用彩色铅笔画出了一个非同于常人眼中的东京，呈现出这座繁华都市在传统与现代文化冲击下的人文风情。继《东京散步》之后，画家回国小住并再次前往日本，完成了第二本画册《真锅岛》。欲知更多信息，欢迎登录画家博客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