jiro taniguchi
A Distant Neighborhood Omnibus
Hiroshi Nakahara is a forty-something salary man returning to Tokyo from an intense business trip when he is catapulted back into his fourteen year-old life and body whilst retaining all the character and experience of the adult.
Price: £19.99
Rating: Teen
Condition: New
A journal of my father
The book opens with some childhood thoughts of Yoichi Yamashita spurred by a phone call at work informing him of his father's death. So, he journeys back to his hometown after an absence of well over a decade during which time he has not seen his father. But as the relatives gather for the funeral and the stories start to flow, Yoichi's childhood starts to resurface. The Spring afternoons playing on the floor of his father's barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents' divorce and a new 'mother'. Through confidences and memories shared with those who knew him best, Yoichi rediscovers the man he had long considered an absent and rather cold father.
Price: £20
Rating: Older Teen
Condition: New
Furari
Taniguchi invites us to join this unnamed but appealing and picturesque figure as he strolls through the various districts of Edo, the ancient Tokyo, with its thousand little pleasures. Now retired from business he surveys, measures, draws and takes notes whilst giving free rein to his taste for simple poetry and his inexhaustible capacity for wonder.
Price: £18.99
Rating: Teen
Condition: New
Guardians of the Louvre
May 2013 and a young Japanese designer ends a group tour to the 31st Barcelona International Comic Fair with a solo visit to Paris, intending to visit many of the museums and galleries of the French capital. But, bedridden in his hotel room with fever, he faces the absolute solitude of one suffering illness in a foreign land, deprived of any familiar attention or care. When the fever abates a little he tries to make up for lost time with a whirlwind tour starting with the greatest of them all - The Louvre.
Price: £17.99
Rating: Teen
Condition: New
Harukana Machie: A Distant Neighborhood
Hiroshi Nakahara is a forty-something salary man returning to Tokyo from an intense business trip when he is catapulted back into his fourteen year-old life and body whilst retaining all the character and experience of the adult. Will he change his past or be forever condemned to relive each painful moment? That fateful day his father disappeared without explanation, the death of his mother... Would he marry his childhood sweetheart and never see his wife and daughters again? Master manga-ka Taniguchi at his most powerful.
Price: £22.99
Rating: Teen
Condition: New
Ice Wanderer
Lost in the Great North, two men are saved by the appearance of an old hunter who divulges a strange legend to them. Surrounded by wolves and fighting for their survival, two explorers head for Alaska to bury their companion... 1920s Japan and a man sets out to find the bear that killed his son... A marine biologist begins a quest to find the mythical whale graveyard. Six shorts with as many stories of men confronted with a savage nature, which is sometimes cruel, sometimes forgiving but always vast. Taniguchi at his award-winning best.
Price: £11.99
Rating: Teen
Condition: New
Quest for the Missing Girl
Mountaineer Shiga made a promise to his best friend following his tragic death in the Himalayas. Twelve years later and he is called upon to honor that promise. When 15-year-old student, Megumi, fails to arrive home from school her mother calls on her dead husband's best friend for help. Shiga abandons his mountain refuge and enters the city to look for the girl. With the police investigation at a standstill, Shiga decides to go it alone. But the metropolis can be a much more hostile and dangerous ground than the mountains.
Price: £13.99
Rating: Teen
Condition: New
SKY HAWK
Exiled from Japan during the Boshin War in 1868 as the new Meiji government took hold, two defeated samurais Hikosaburo and Manzo eventually settle in Crow territory in North America. One day out hunting, Hikosaburo encounters a young native female who has just given birth hidden in the scrub. Called Running Deer, she tells of how she escaped from two white traders who had 'bought' her. They soon come looking for their possession] Saved from the murderous deceit of the traders by the chief of the Oglalas, Crazy Horse, they soon formed a profound friendship and respect for each other's cultures to the extent of Hikosaburo and Manzo becoming 'Sky Hawk' and 'Winds Wolf' and fighting alongside their new brothers in their struggle against the invaders.
Price: £18.99
Rating: Teen
Condition: New
Summit of the Gods #1 - 5 [complete]
Did the truth about Mallory's ascent of Mt Everest in 1924 - almost three decades before Hillary - die with him on those unforgiving slopes? Or was the secret buried deep within a simple camera? Taniguchi's realistic art and Baku's tireless script will take readers to the heights that only mountaineers dream of.
Price: £75 now £65
Rating: Teen
Condition: New
Times of Botchan #1 - 4
A fictionalised version of the life and times of Japanese author Natsume Soseki during an era of great change in Japan from the traditional Edo period into the modern Meiji period (1867-1912).
Price: £40 now £30
Rating: Teen
Condition: New
Venice
With very few but well chosen words and his artist's eye for detail, Taniguchi portrays the Venice of today in a most deserving light.
Price: £19.99
Rating: Teen
Condition: New
The Walking Man
The Walking Man is a reprint of Jiro Taniguchi's most cherished title. It is a book in which nothing happens but everything occurs. The Walking Man follows a modern day Japanese business man as he strolls at random through urban Japan - often silent, usually alone - with his vivid dreams that let time stand still. Join him as he climbs a tree in bare feet, takes time out to observe the birds, plays in the puddles after the rain and returns a shell to the sea. It is an ideal way for readers and graphic novel-lovers to relax.
Currently out of print
Price: £55
Rating: Teen
Condition: New
The Walking Man expanded edition
Taniguchi's most cherished title: a book in which nothing happens but everything occurs.
The Walking Man follows a modern day Japanese business man as he strolls at random through urban Japan often silent, usually alone with his vivid dreams that let time stand still. Join him as he climbs a tree in bare feet, takes time out to observe the birds, plays in the puddles after the rain and returns a shell to the sea.
This edition contains 4 extra stories and 28 pages in colour, and gives a highly original sense of reading.
Price: £25
Rating: Teen
Condition: New
Zoo in Winter
Kyoto, 1966. The young Hamaguchi is working for a textile manufacturer whilst dreaming of becoming an artist, when an incident at the zoo forces his hand. He moves to Tokyo at the invitation of an old school friend who also arranges an 'interview' at the studios of the famous mangaka, Shiro Kondo. Here he discovers both the long hours of meeting studio deadlines along with the nightlife and artistic haunts of the capital.
Price: £18.99
Rating: Teen
Condition: New