A unique take on modern life in Japan's capital city. A Japan of trains, every day to and fro, carriage scenes and theatre, vistas from the window, advertising posters. Each to be savoured through a specific Tokyo line - the Odakyu. Pitched as creative text and line-graphics, Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line offers on-track and off-track observations. A gallery of mirrors, musings, memories. This is less documentary than iconography, a poetics of Japanese routine and etiquette. It offers a wry diary of month-and-weekday observations, a 'map' of Shinjuku as key station and gathering-place, a run of notable Tokyo locations - from the National bunraku theatre to a Kawasaki sludge recycling centre. Other Odakyu travel involves the Hakone open air art gallery, Narita as both airport and temple complex, Yokohama as history and Chinatown. Essential reading for first-time, and second-time visitors, and even regular commuters.
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100 farbige Abbildungen
100 Illustrations, color
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Höhe: 214 mm
Breite: 136 mm
Dicke: 15 mm
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978-1-898823-06-3 (9781898823063)
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A. Robert Lee was a Professor in the English department at Nihon University, Tokyo from 1997 to 2011. He previously taught at the University of Kent, UK. His recent books include Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (2003), which won the American Book Award in 2004, and, with Mark Gresham, Japan Textures: Sight and Word (2007).
1. Odaky?-sen
2. Shinjuku Station
3. Shinjuku
4. Muk?gaoka-y?en North
5. Muk?gaoka-y?en South
6. Muk?gaoka-y?en Platform
7. January Monday
8. Odaky? Notables
9. Odaky? Line Sounds Familiar
10. Train Notices
11. Odaky? Commercials
12. February Tuesday
13. Odaky? Keitaispracht
14. By-line, Setagaya Line
15. March Wednesday
16. Odaky? Day-out Sendagi
17. Shimo-Kitazawa
18. Bicycle!
19. Odaky? Bike Interview - Toda-san
20. International Interlude via Narita Airport
21. Keitai Train Culture
22. April Thursday
23. Odaky? Tamagawa
24. Station Sights
25. Odaky?-sen, Yoyogi-Hachiman Eki
26. May Friday
27. Muk?gaoka-y?en, Day for Night
28. Odaky? Day-out, Hakone
29. June Saturday
30. Odaky? Commercials
31. Odaky? Smokes
32. By-line, Nambu Line
33. Odaky? Bag Watch
34. Seijo Times
35. Odaky? Day-out, Yokohama
36. July Sunday
37. Odaky? Trains of Thought
38. Train Signs, Train Sounds
39. By-line, Tama Express
40. August Monday
41. Odaky? Day-out, Chiba
42. September Tuesday
43. Odaky? Lady-grooming
44. Odaky? and Near-Odaky? Women's Hairday
45. Odaky? Evenings-out
46. October Wednesday
47. Odaky? Day-out, Ibaraki
48. Chikan! Odaky? Misbehaviour
49. November Thursday
50. Odaky? Blues
51. Odaky? Men's Haircut
52. Odaky? Day-out, ?-Sumo
53. December Friday
54. Odaky? Store
55. Odaky? Bookshelf
56. Last Train
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