Travel Diary of Japan - Ray Kinnane
15. Nara

Honshu

Set of 3 images, glass and metal framed 405mm x 510mm. Image area is 250mm wide x 275mm deep.

Nara <  up  >

a. Restaurant proprietor.

b. Comic supermarket.

c. Stone garden lanterns, Kasuga Taisha.

Nara is another very old, historic city - once the old capital. And there is no better place for a Japanese commuter to learn history than from a comic. Comics are not just for children in Japan. Any serious subject is available in comic form; the Bible, Moby Dick, Shakespeare, philosophy, and a wide range of technical and how-to books, as well as some of the most explicitly violent publications you could see. All available in comic form from a comic supermarket chain - huge multistorey buildings just full of comics.