![]() ![]() ![]() The original image that appeared on the first page of “The Times of Botchan,” which was written by Natsuo Sekikawa and illustrated by Taniguchi. ![]() He was jointly awarded the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for “The Times of Botchan.” He also won awards at Angouleme International Comics Festival in France for “A Journal of My Father,” “A Distant Neighborhood” and “The Summit of the Gods.” Taniguchi released more than 150 comics, which have been published in about 20 countries and regions around the world. Hailing from Tottori, Taniguchi (1947-2017) debuted in around 1975, when his first comics were published in a manga magazine. “The world of ‘The Walking Man,’ in which the landscape is the main character, is expressed in this single image,” Yonezawa, 66, said. It’s a strange picture that in no way depicts a real landscape,” said Shinya Yonezawa of Furari, the company that manages the copyright of the late mangaka. “The houses and people are not drawn to scale. ![]() However, the bucolic idyll depicted in the cover image looks nothing like the nondescript suburb Taniguchi called home. When the comic was being serialized, Taniguchi lived in the Tokyo suburb of Kiyose, and many locations in the area appear in the manga. The cover of manga creator Jiro Taniguchi’s “Aruku Hito” (“The Walking Man”) depicts the comic book’s middle-aged protagonist walking in a rural neighborhood with an almost labyrinth-like network of paths. The image that appeared on the cover of the Japanese edition of “The Walking Man” by Jiro Taniguchiīy Kenichi Sato / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer ![]()
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