Name: kimi no machi (Your Town Walking, Traveling, Writing, Drawing) – Machiko Kyo
SKU: 9784910422176
Price: 2200 JPY
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The feelings Machiko Kyo experiences in foreign lands and the excitement different from her daily life. This first essay collection documents her travel experiences, including 66 illustrations depicting towns and people.

Machiko Kyo continued to depict life during the pandemic, completing the popular “#stayhome Diary” trilogy in 2023. Now, she turns her attention to “days of being able to travel.” Relishing the newfound freedom to travel, she visited cities like Taipei, Taichung, Tainan, Kaohsiung in Taiwan, as well as Ise, Kyoto, Sendai, Tsukuba, and Kanazawa.

66 illustrations depicting towns and people are also included.

Category：Japanese Illustration Book, Japanese Manga

Tag：Essay, Kanazawa, Kyoto, Taiwan, travel

Pages：: 224
ISBN：: 9784910422176
Release Date:: June, 2024
Language:: Japanese
Publisher:: rn press

Author profile

Machiko Kyo

Born in Tokyo. She graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Setsu Mode Seminar. On her own blog, the one-page short manga “Sennen Gaho”, which is updated almost every day, has been published as a book and attracted attention.

Selected for the 1st “Hobonichi Manga Award” in 2005. In 2006 and 2007, “Sennen Gaho” was selected for the Japan Media Arts Festival “Judging Committee Recommended Works” for the second consecutive year. In 2010, “cocoon” and in 2013, “Anone,” were selected as “Judging Committee Recommended Works” by the Japan Media Arts Festival.

In 2014, she received the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Award Newborn Award for “Mitsuami no Kami-sama” and the Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize (Carton category) for “Ichigo War” in 2015.