A unique take on modern life in Japan’s capital city. A Japan of trains, every day 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 line-graphics, Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line offers on-track and off-track observations. A gallery of mirrors, musings, memories. This is less documentary than iconography, a poetics of Japanese routine and etiquette. It offers a wry diary of month-and-weekday observations, a ‘map’ of Shinjuku as key station and gathering-place, a run of notable Tokyo locations – from the National bunraku theatre to a Kawasaki sludge recycling centre. Other Odakyu travel involves the Hakone open air art gallery, Narita as both airport and temple complex, Yokohama as history and Chinatown. Essential reading for first-time, and second-time visitors, and even regular commuters.
A unique take on modern life in Tokyo. A Japan of trains, every day to and fro, carriage scenes and theatre, vistas from the window, advertising posters. To be savoured through the Odakyu line. Pitched as creative text and line-graphics, Tokyo Commute offers on-track and off-track observations. Poetics of Japanese routine and etiquette.
A unique take on modern life in Japan's capital city. A Japan of trains, every day 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 line-graphics, Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line offers on-track and off-track observations. A gallery of mirrors, musings, memories. This is less documentary than iconography, a poetics of Japanese routine and etiquette. It offers a wry diary of month-and-weekday observations, a 'map' of Shinjuku as key station and gathering-place, a run of notable Tokyo locations - from the National bunraku theatre to a Kawasaki sludge recycling centre. Other Odakyu travel involves the Hakone open air art gallery, Narita as both airport and temple complex, Yokohama as history and Chinatown. Essential reading for first-time, and second-time visitors, and even regular commuters.
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 routine and etiquette. It offers a wry diary of month-and-weekday observations, a “map” of Shinjuku as key station and gathering place, a run of notable Tokyo locations—from the national bunraku theatre to a Kawasaki sludge recycling centre. Other Odakyu travel involves the Hakone open air art gallery, Narita as both airport and temple-complex, Yokohama as history and Chinatown. Essential reading for first-time, and second-time, visitors, and even regular commuters.
1. Odaky?-sen,
2. Shinjuku Station,
3. Shinjuku,
4. Muk?gaoka-y?en
North,
5. Muk?gaoka-y?en South,
6. Muk?gaoka-y?en Platform,
7. January
Monday,
8. Odaky? Notables,
9. Odaky? Line Sounds Familiar,
10. Train
Notices,
11. Odaky? Commercials,
12. February Tuesday,
13. Odaky?
Keitaispracht,
14. By-line, Setagaya Line,
15. March Wednesday,
16. Odaky?
Day-out Sendagi,
17. Shimo-Kitazawa,
18. Bicycle!,
19. Odaky? Bike Interview
Toda-san,
20. International Interlude via Narita Airport,
21. Keitai Train
Culture,
22. April Thursday,
23. Odaky? Tamagawa,
24. Station Sights,
25.
Odaky?-sen, Yoyogi-Hachiman Eki,
26. May Friday,
27. Muk?gaoka-y?en, Day for
Night,
28. Odaky? Day-out, Hakone,
29. June Saturday,
30. Odaky? Commercials,
31. Odaky? Smokes,
32. By-line, Nambu Line,
33. Odaky? Bag Watch,
34. Seijo
Times,
35. Odaky? Day-out, Yokohama,
36. July Sunday,
37. Odaky? Trains of
Thought,
38. Train Signs, Train Sounds,
39. By-line, Tama Express,
40. August
Monday,
41. Odaky? Day-out, Chiba,
42. September Tuesday,
43. Odaky?
Lady-grooming,
44. Odaky? and Near-Odaky? Womens Hairday,
45. Odaky?
Evenings-out,
46. October Wednesday,
47. Odaky? Day-out, Ibaraki,
48. Chikan!
Odaky? Misbehaviour,
49. November Thursday,
50. Odaky? Blues,
51. Odaky?
Mens Haircut,
52. Odaky? Day-out, ?-Sumo,
53. December Friday,
54. Odaky?
Store,
55. Odaky? Bookshelf,
56. Last Train, Glossary
A. Robert Lee was a Professor in the English department at Nihon University, Tokyo from 1997 to 2011. He previously taught at the University of Kent, UK. His recent books include Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (2003), which won the American Book Award in 2004, and, with Mark Gresham, Japan Textures: Sight and Word (2007). A. Robert Lee was a Professor in the English department at Nihon University, Tokyo from 1997 to 2011. He previously taught at the University of Kent, UK. His recent books include Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions (2003), which won the American Book Award in 2004, and, with Mark Gresham, Japan Textures: Sight and Word (2007).
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