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Tokyo on Foot: Travels in the City's Most Colorful Neighborhoods (2009)

di Florent Chavouet

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This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist's warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir. Florent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a company there. Each day he would set forth with a pouch full of color pencils and a sketchpad, and visit different neighborhoods. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during his adventures. It isn't the Tokyo of packaged tours and glossy guidebooks, but a grittier, vibrant place, full of ordinary people going about their daily lives and the scenes and activitiesthat unfold on the streets of a bustling metropolis. Here you find businessmen and businesswomen, hipsters, students, grandmothers, shopkeepers, police officers, and other urban types and tribes in all manner of dress and hairstyles. A temple nestles among skyscrapers; the corner grocery anchors a diverse assortment of dwellings, cafes, and shops--often tangled in electric lines. The artist mixes styles and tags his pictures with wry comments and observations. Realistically rendered advertisements or posters of pop stars contrast with cartoon sketches of iconic objects or droll vignettes, like a housewife walking her pet pig, a Godzilla statue in a local park, and an urban fishing pond that charges 400 yen per half hour. This very personal guide to Tokyo is organized by neighborhood with hand-drawn maps that provide an overview of each neighborhood, but what defines them is what caught the artist's eye and attracted his formidable drawing talent. Florent Chavouet begins his introduction by observing that, "Tokyo is said to be the most beautiful of ugly cities." With wit, a playful sense of humor, and the multicolor pencils of his kit, he sets aside the question of urban ugliness or beauty and captures theJapanese essence of a great city in this genuinely vital portrait.… (altro)
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Beautiful sketches and amusing anecdotes and observations about the city. :) A very enjoyable book! ( )
  ulan25 | Feb 14, 2023 |
nonfiction (colored pencil drawings/travel/people watching). ( )
  reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |
A fun, bicycle-eye view of the land of adorable police stations (exteriors only). I wish the author would do the same for New York City! ( )
  badube | Mar 6, 2019 |
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Chavouet-Tokyo-Sanpo
—Promenades-a-Tokyo/120334

> Le graphisme de Florent Chavouet, magnifique, chaleureux, alterne réalisme et grotesque avec, dans le regard, une incompréhension teintée de bienveillance qui transparaît à chaque image. Les paysages, tout en profondeurs et volumes, regorgent de détails où égarer son regard. Quant aux crayons de couleur, leur maîtrise permet de retranscrire parfaitement cette lumière opaline qui baigne la capitale, avec ses reflets singuliers qui teintent le gris du bitume tokyoïte. [...] Le résultat est aussi parfait qu original, fluide comme une belle promenade à vélo dont on voudrait qu elle ne s arrête jamais."
Stéphane Beaujean - Les Inrocks n°700, 28 avril 2009

> "Florent Chavouet a passé quatre mois à Tokyo, dessinant chaque jour tout ce qui, dans le mouvement de la capitale japonaise, l'amusait, l'intriguait et accrochait son regard d'Européen. De ce séjour au coeur de « la plus belle des villes moches du monde », il a rapporté un vrai-faux guide de voyage dessiné aux crayons de couleur. On y découvre l'étrangeté d'un univers fascinant jusque dans ses étiquettes de fruits, ses panneaux de circulation ou ses canettes de soda. Le trait léger saisit les détails les plus infimes, autant d'accès inattendus vers un mode de vie inconnu et parfois énigmatique. Les belles planches de l'album sont parsemées de remarques fines et pleines d'humour. De quoi jeter les classiques guides de voyage aux orties !"
Allan Kaval - Marianne 2, 21 mars 2009

> "L'humeur vagabonde révèle bien des surprises dans une capitale telle que Tokyo. Car ce gigantesque tissu urbain est une mosaïque de villages. Florent Chavouet, un jeune auteur-dessinateur (né en 1980), s'est livré pendant six mois à un exercice de style cocasse : arpenter la mégalopole, quartier par quartier, avec une bicyclette, une chaise pliante et quelques crayons de couleur. Ses croquis effleurent joyeusement l'esprit tokyoïte. Un regard amusant amusé sur la ville des extrêmes où tout se juxtapose."
-Le Monde, avril 2009

> Par lirelejapon : Tokyo Sanpo – Florent Chavouet : beau et drôle !
3 juin 2012 ... Si vous ne connaissez pas encore ce livre sorti en 2009, précipitez-vous pour l’acheter !
C’est tout simplement génial : un « touriste » français (enfin touriste resté six mois) nous fait découvrir un certain nombre de quartiers de Tokyo grâce à son vélo et ses crayons …
Chaque quartier fait l’objet d’un magnifique plan (quel travail !!!) et est accompagné en introduction de son koban (commissariat). Nous découvrons ensuite aussi bien des bâtiments immenses que des petites maisons, des échoppes, des panneaux publicitaires … et surtout « des gens » croqués avec talent par Florent !
Beaucoup d’humour, d’amour et d’humanité dans ces dessins qui vous transporteront dans SON Tokyo. Parsemé de « blagues à 2 yens », de dessins de nourriture, d’insectes, d’autres découvertes (objets divers que l’on ne trouve qu’au Japon !) et d’étiquettes de pommes, ce livre est très riche et on ne se lasse pas de le prendre et le reprendre encore …
Un beau livre et dans un format qui permet d’apprécier chaque petit détail !
  Joop-le-philosophe | Dec 17, 2018 |
This is a lovely, idiosyncratic, hand-drawn guide to Tokyo. It doesn't look at tourist sites, rather it focuses on little details of the writer/artists life and surroundings. For this reason I found it very evocative of my time living there as it reminded me of lots of tiny details I had forgotten about how the streets looked and what a Japanese apartment is like. Would have loved a couple of pages on my old neighbourhood. ( )
  AlisonSakai | Oct 16, 2015 |
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This prize-winning book is both an illustrated tour of a Tokyo rarely seen in Japan travel guides and an artist's warm, funny, visually rich, and always entertaining graphic memoir. Florent Chavouet, a young graphic artist, spent six months exploring Tokyo while his girlfriend interned at a company there. Each day he would set forth with a pouch full of color pencils and a sketchpad, and visit different neighborhoods. This stunning book records the city that he got to know during his adventures. It isn't the Tokyo of packaged tours and glossy guidebooks, but a grittier, vibrant place, full of ordinary people going about their daily lives and the scenes and activitiesthat unfold on the streets of a bustling metropolis. Here you find businessmen and businesswomen, hipsters, students, grandmothers, shopkeepers, police officers, and other urban types and tribes in all manner of dress and hairstyles. A temple nestles among skyscrapers; the corner grocery anchors a diverse assortment of dwellings, cafes, and shops--often tangled in electric lines. The artist mixes styles and tags his pictures with wry comments and observations. Realistically rendered advertisements or posters of pop stars contrast with cartoon sketches of iconic objects or droll vignettes, like a housewife walking her pet pig, a Godzilla statue in a local park, and an urban fishing pond that charges 400 yen per half hour. This very personal guide to Tokyo is organized by neighborhood with hand-drawn maps that provide an overview of each neighborhood, but what defines them is what caught the artist's eye and attracted his formidable drawing talent. Florent Chavouet begins his introduction by observing that, "Tokyo is said to be the most beautiful of ugly cities." With wit, a playful sense of humor, and the multicolor pencils of his kit, he sets aside the question of urban ugliness or beauty and captures theJapanese essence of a great city in this genuinely vital portrait.

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