Comments on: Japan 2009: Flagship Kinokuniya Shinjuku http://comics212.net/2009/08/25/japan-2009-flagship-kinokuniya-shinjuku/ Never Safe For Work Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:37:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ano http://comics212.net/2009/08/25/japan-2009-flagship-kinokuniya-shinjuku/comment-page-1/#comment-115064 Ano Sun, 25 Apr 2010 23:33:44 +0000 http://comics212.net/?p=3232#comment-115064 That's not the flagship store, that's the Shinjuku south store. The flagship store is located north east of Shinjuku station. That’s not the flagship store, that’s the Shinjuku south store. The flagship store is located north east of Shinjuku station.

]]> By: JH http://comics212.net/2009/08/25/japan-2009-flagship-kinokuniya-shinjuku/comment-page-1/#comment-112012 JH Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:56:18 +0000 http://comics212.net/?p=3232#comment-112012 And those bookstores are really great. I used to read complete sets of classic American comic strips in bilingual editions in a section containing only that. Though my little bookstore only had four floors. And those bookstores are really great.
I used to read complete sets of classic American comic strips in bilingual editions in a section containing only that. Though my little bookstore only had four floors.

]]> By: JH http://comics212.net/2009/08/25/japan-2009-flagship-kinokuniya-shinjuku/comment-page-1/#comment-112011 JH Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:52:04 +0000 http://comics212.net/?p=3232#comment-112011 "Beach Grass Vaudeville Comic Strip" is fairly accurate. "Shiba Hama" ("Beach Grass")is a storyteller's classic about a man and wife in old Edo. It is about their relationship and how it changes over time and how the revelations of misguided deceptions committed early in their relationship affects them later. It is a story teller classic because the story was originally told orally by roving storytellers, the kind that in times past would wander into your neighborhood. They would tell you a story and sometimes take payment. They used illustrated placards as visual aids. They were very popular until they were pretty much replaced in pop-culture by... MANGA! The story is a classic and it evolved to be told in theaters by storytellers rather than by wandering storytellers. Though there are currently CDs and MP3s and even a modernized drama version (featuring not a married couple but two people living together), it is considered a piece that is best viewed and heard when told by a master storyteller in a theater. "Shiba Hama" refers to a strip of grassy beach that the story originally was set near. That strip of land is now mostly covered by the JR track near Tamachi station. I expect the comic will be pretty great. My Japanese is not good enough to sit through a telling of Shiba Hama, but if you'd like to try, there are some bits of it on Youtube. “Beach Grass Vaudeville Comic Strip” is fairly accurate. “Shiba Hama” (“Beach Grass”)is a storyteller’s classic about a man and wife in old Edo. It is about their relationship and how it changes over time and how the revelations of misguided deceptions committed early in their relationship affects them later.
It is a story teller classic because the story was originally told orally by roving storytellers, the kind that in times past would wander into your neighborhood. They would tell you a story and sometimes take payment. They used illustrated placards as visual aids. They were very popular until they were pretty much replaced in pop-culture by… MANGA!
The story is a classic and it evolved to be told in theaters by storytellers rather than by wandering storytellers. Though there are currently CDs and MP3s and even a modernized drama version (featuring not a married couple but two people living together), it is considered a piece that is best viewed and heard when told by a master storyteller in a theater.
“Shiba Hama” refers to a strip of grassy beach that the story originally was set near. That strip of land is now mostly covered by the JR track near Tamachi station.

I expect the comic will be pretty great. My Japanese is not good enough to sit through a telling of Shiba Hama, but if you’d like to try, there are some bits of it on Youtube.

]]> By: Travis McGee http://comics212.net/2009/08/25/japan-2009-flagship-kinokuniya-shinjuku/comment-page-1/#comment-111994 Travis McGee Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:48:48 +0000 http://comics212.net/?p=3232#comment-111994 Bless you, Christopher Butcher! But my thirst for your excellent posts on Japan is still not saited. Bring on more! Bless you, Christopher Butcher! But my thirst for your excellent posts on Japan is still not saited. Bring on more!

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