Manabeshima Island Japan: One Island, Two Months, Minicar, Sixty Crabs, Eighty Bites and Fifty Shots of Shochu

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Additional Reviews: "Hats off to Chavouet, who, like a candid anthropologist, scrutinizes with meticulousness the habits and customs of the 300 inhabitants and their friendly gang of cats. All life is here, portrayed with humor and delicacy." — Avantages "Here is a veritable gem depicting a Japan so different from other guidebooks; a Japan far apart from glitzy urban megalopolis and trodden cultural treasures. Here is a work of art that captures the remote microcosm of a tiny tranquil Japanese island." — Japan Reference blog "I really recommend this book even though you probably won't go to Manabeshima but also for the great illustrations as well as to know the life in an island of Japan. Just enjoy! But I warn you that you definitely will want to visit the island after reading this not for the cats but the people there." — Iromegane.com blog "What I love about this book, besides the great observation and descriptive abilities of the writer, is that it really makes me feel like I am traveling to Manabeshima Island. Florent has done a superb job at selecting interesting subject matter such that a sense of everyday life oozes from many of the scenes in this book." — Self Taught Japanese blog "Florent has managed to capture this little slice of Japan beautifully with his illustrations. It's funny because he manages to catch all the little details of a rural place like a isolated island with only 230 people. I found myself reading about some of the characters that reminded me of the rich culture that you can find out in the countryside." — JLPT Boot Camp blog "The best part of Tuttle's lovely softcover edition of Manabeshima is that it comes with a huge map folded into a pocket on the back cover. This map is intensely detailed, showing every house and garden and boat on the island and labeled with references to people, landmarks, and events from the main text. I spent at least an hour with the map alone, catching new details each time I opened it and spread it out over my kitchen table." — JapaneseLit.net "An indispensable illustrated guidebook for all Japanophiles!" — Le Monde des Ados "…if you have the time to explore a different island other than the main one, why not try Manabeshima? It's a small island off the coast in Osaka which only has 300 residents, but Florent Chavouet depicted this place so beautifully that it's hard not to be enticed by it." — I Am Aileen blog "Chavouet's drawing talents are remarkable. You can sense from his drawings how the people of the island think and even, somehow, why they think what they do." — Japan Visitor blog "The recipes are manageable for even the novice cook, and most ingredients do not require an extra stop at specialty food markets. Gorgeous photographs by Masano Kawana accompany each recipe, and recipes using less familiar techniques guide readers through step-by-step photo instructions." — BiCultural Mama blog"Chavouet follows up his beautiful color pencil sketches of Tokyo in Tokyo on Foot with a gorgeous book of sketches of his time on a tiny Japanese island off the coast of Osaka." —Book Threat blog More than just a Japan travel guide, Manabeshima Island Japan paints a colorful and entertaining picture of a particular place and time in Japan. Japan is made up of thousands of sacred islands, artificial islands, industrial islands, resort islands, wild islands and exploding islands…but artist Florent Chavouet had only ever visited two of them. This graphic novel is the story of one summer when he decides to get to know one more—the tiny island of Manabeshima. This speck of dirt in the Inland Sea, off the coast of Osaka, has a total population of 300, and he sets himself the task of recording everything and everyone he meets there in quirky detail on the pages of his sketchbook. Whereas Chavouet's other best-selling book, Tokyo on Foot, focuses on the physical city, it is the local island inhabitants who form the heart of this new book. Chavouet's sensitive drawings and insightful captions create instant portraits of incredible literary depth. The cast of characters who are lovingly depicted includes Ikkyu-san, owner of the island's only bar (and the bar's three regulars—skinny guy, Day-Glo cap guy and greasy-haired guy); the young Nakamura family and their five kids; the layabout Shimura-san, a living relic from the hippie 1970s; Kurata-san the policeman; Reizo-san the island intellectual in his elegant Meiji-era home; Rock the Neanderthal fisherman; and a chorus of assorted grandmothers and cats—all of whom welcome Chavouet into their community as a kindred soul. Against a backdrop of fireworks, summer festivals, fishing expeditions, and the constant hum of the cicadas, Chavouet depicts these characters so vividly and sympathetically, and describes their rustic way of life in such simple and appealing terms that we find it as hard to finish the book as Chavouet found it to leave the island at the end of his enchanted summer holiday.

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Pagina's: 144, Paperback, Tuttle Publishing