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Surreal duotone illustrations by Shigeru Miwa

September 3, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

From the book Ony One Me, by poet Shuntaro Tanikawa, illustrated by Shintaro Miwa (Balloon-sha editions).

This one and the other two books illustrated by Miwa explore a child’s emotion observing Alzheimer disease, a taboo topic for Japanese children’s books. Thus the crude images below.

Shintaro Tanikawa is a well known poet in Japan. Now in his 70’s, he wrote the original Astro-boy lyrics and co-wrote the screenplay for Kon Ichikawa’s film “Tokyo Olympiad”. He also translated “Peanuts” into Japanese.

Infos and Via: Sam Smith

only one me

only one me

only one me

only one me

only one me

only one me

only one me

only one me

only one me

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Comments

  1. pasqualelaforgia says

    September 3, 2011 at 11:42 pm

    stunning
    this little book is the umpteenth reason why I have to deeply rethink my western-driven vision of illustration (and maybe of the world)
    these japanese guys have always been way ahead of us
    jeeesus christ

  2. interested says

    September 13, 2015 at 2:16 am

    I have a question. What is the full title of the book and the name of the publishing house? Is there any possibility to buy it? I can’t find any place to buy it online, but it seems that it should have some Japanese – English edition.

  3. fosco lucarelli says

    September 13, 2015 at 6:29 pm

    You could try and acquire it from here: http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%9C%AC-%E4%B8%89%E8%BC%AA%E6%BB%8B/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A465392%2Cp_27%3A%E4%B8%89%E8%BC%AA%E6%BB%8B

    but we don’t know much more respect of what’s written in the post, sorry.

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