Tokyo Commute

Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line

A. Robert Lee (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2011 | New edition
Renaissance Books (Verlag)
978-1-898823-06-3 (ISBN)

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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. 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).

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? Women’s 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? Men’s Haircut
52. Odaky? Day-out, ?-Sumo
53. December Friday
54. Odaky? Store
55. Odaky? Bookshelf
56. Last Train
Glossary

Zusatzinfo	100 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	Folkestone
Sprache	englisch
Maße	136 x 214 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Bildbände ► Asien
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
ISBN-10	1-898823-06-5 / 1898823065
ISBN-13	978-1-898823-06-3 / 9781898823063
Zustand	Neuware