{"product_id":"9781770466623-my-picture-diary","title":"Holmberg Ryan - My Picture Diary - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: The wife of Japan's most lauded manga - ka documents a year in their lives with her own artistry. In 1981, Fujiwara Maki began a picture diary about daily life with her son and husband the legendary manga author Tsuge Yoshiharu. Publishing was not her original intention. I wanted to record our family's daily life while our son Shosuke was small. But as 8mm cameras were too expensive and we were poor I decided on the picture diary format instead. I figured Shosuke would enjoy reading it when he got older. Drawn in a simple personable style and covering the same years fictionalized in Tsuge's final masterpiece The Man Without Talent Fujiwara's journal focuses on the joys of daily life amidst the stresses of childrearing housekeeping and managing a depressed husband. A touching and inspiring testimony of one Japanese woman's resilience My Picture Diary is also an important glimpse of the enigma that is Tsuge. Fujiwara's diary is unsparing. It provides a stark picture of the gender divide in their household: Tsuge sleeps until noon and does practically nothing. He never compliments her cooking and dictates how money is spent. Not once is he shown drawing. And yet Fujiwara remains surprisingly empathetic toward her mercurial husband. Translated by Ryan Holmberg this edition sheds light on Fujiwara's life her own career in art writing and underground theater and her extensive influence upon her husband's celebrated manga.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: My Picture Diary\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Holmberg Ryan\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Drawn And Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781770466623\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 284 Pages, Black-And-White Illustrations Throughout\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 9\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Graphic Novels: True Stories \u0026amp; Non-Fiction","brand":"Holmberg Ryan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49623136534833,"sku":"IN-G-9781770466623","price":23.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781770466623.jpg?v=1724708869","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781770466623-my-picture-diary","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}