Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line

by Robert Lee

A unique take on modern life in Tokyo, Japan's capital city. A Japan of trains, everyday 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 colour illustrations, Tokyo Commute offers on-track and off-track observations. A gallery of mirrors, musings, memories. This is less documentary than iconography, a poetics of Japanese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1898823065
• ISBN13: 9781898823063
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Renaissance Books
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"