Book
Red flowers
Call Number
- GRAPHIC NOVEL TSUG (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Montréal, Québec : Drawn & Quarterly, 2021.
Physical Description
248 pages, 36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Uniform Title
Summary
"Yoshiharu Tsuge leaves early genre trappings behind, taking a light, humorous approach in these stories based on his own travels. Red Flowers ranges from deep character studies to personal reflections to ensemble comedies set in the hotels and bathhouses of rural Japan. There are irascible old men, drunken gangsters, reflective psychiatric-hospital escapees, and mysterious dogs. Tsuge's stories are mischievous and tender even as they explore complex relationships and heartache. It's a world of extreme poverty, tradition, secret fishing holes, and top-dollar koi farming...Red Flowers affirms why Tsuge went on to become one of the most important cartoonists in Japan. These vital comics inspired a wealth of fictionalized memoir from his peers and a desire within the postwar generation to document and understand the diversity of their country's culture."--
Notes
Stories translated from the Japanese.
Subjects
- Manga (Comic books)
- Bathhouses > Japan > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Taverns (Inns) > Japan > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Japan > Social conditions > 21st century > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Japan > Social life and customs > 21st century > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Japan > Economic conditions > 1945- > Comic books, strips, etc.
- Japan > Rural conditions > Comic books, strips, etc.