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| Title Statement | Red flowers / Yoshiharu Tsuge ; co-editor, translator, and essay co-author, Ryan Holmberg. |
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| Series | Complete mature works of Yoshiharu Tsuge ;volume 2 |
| Author | Tsuge, Yoshiharu, 1937- |
| Publication | [New York]: Drawn & Quarterly,2021. |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Extent of Item | 248 pages |
| ISBN | 1770464344 9781770464346 |
| Other Number | 3987370 |
| General Notes | Paging is from back to front to preserve the original Japanese format. Translated from the Japanese. |
| Contents | The wake (March 1967) -- The salamander (May 1967) -- The Lee family (June 1967) -- The dog from Prayer Pass (August 1967) -- Scenes from the seaside (September 1967) -- Red flowers (October 1967) -- The incident at Nishibeta village (December 1967) -- Chohachi Inn (January 1968) -- Futamata Gorge (February 1968) -- The Ondol shack (April 1968) --Mister Ben of the Honyara Cave (June 1968) -- The Antilion pit (April 1967) -- A new kind of literature: the awakening of Yoshiharu Tsuge / essay by Mitsuhiro Asakawa and Ryan Holmberg. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Rural poor--Comic books, strips, etc--Japan |
| Country life--Comic books, strips, etc--20th century--Japan | |
| By Location | Japan--Comic books, strips, etc--Social life and customs--20th century |
| By Genre | Graphic novels |
