| Showa:1944-1953 A history of Japan by Shigero Mizuki,Volume 3 [message #275835] |
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sellers
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Showa:1944-1953 A history of Japan by Shigero Mizuki
Volume 3 - Another 530 pages of Mizuki's sensei masterwork.
This covers the horrors of the end of the war as Japan's
military machine is battered into uselessness. The folks at
home are starving and so are the men in the field.
Shigero comes down with malaria which is seen by the
officers as an attempt to evade duty and he is mercilessly punished
for being ill and for surviving. He is sent for water and his group
are annihilated, but he survived so he must be a coward in the
estimation of the Bushido inspired Officer Corps.
Hi right arm becomes infected and is amputated in the field
by friendly medico, He makes friends with aborigines against the
express orders regarding fraternization with the native.
After endless horrendous action with the reduction of the
Japanese fleet and the Conquest of Okinawa, the adoption of the
Kamikaze expedient. The civilian members of the Government
and the Emperor are pleading to make peace but Tojo swears he
can recover the initiative.
Then the bombs fall and the previous objections of the
militarists are pushed aside.
It takes us thru the struggle of Shigero after the war amid
the black market and schemes to get enough money and food to
eat. He has more operations on his arm and goes to school to learn
to draw with his remaining arm.
The Korean War starts and Japan profits. Things get a bit
better.
He becomes a Kamishibai artist drawing panels for a
performer who narrates the action and moves the panels but
toward the end of the volume that entertainment form is losing
popularity. He has created the characters that will later come to
populate his manga and the anime made from them.
In 1953 with his art tools and a few rice balls he moves to
Tokyo and the beginning of his career as a mangaka.
I borrowed the volume from the San Francisco Public Library,
about 9:50 AM and started reading it on the Streetcar then later on
the bus and I got home and started reading it again.
So it made me laugh and it made me cry. If I had the space
I would live on cheap food for some months and buy every one of
these volumes.
Thank you Shigeo Mizuki and thank you Drawn and Quarterly
for publishing this great work.
I hope that I get to read Volume 4 of this series.
bliss
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| Re: Showa:1944-1953 A history of Japan by Shigero Mizuki,Volume 3 [message #275840 is a reply to message #275835] |
Wed, 17 December 2014 02:30  |
Kenneth M. Lin
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"Bobbie Sellers" wrote in message news:m6qvcf$t38$1@dont-email.me...
Showa:1944-1953 A history of Japan by Shigero Mizuki
Volume 3 - Another 530 pages of Mizuki's sensei masterwork.
This covers the horrors of the end of the war as Japan's
military machine is battered into uselessness. The folks at
home are starving and so are the men in the field.
Shigero comes down with malaria which is seen by the
officers as an attempt to evade duty and he is mercilessly punished
for being ill and for surviving. He is sent for water and his group
are annihilated, but he survived so he must be a coward in the
estimation of the Bushido inspired Officer Corps.
Hi right arm becomes infected and is amputated in the field
by friendly medico, He makes friends with aborigines against the
express orders regarding fraternization with the native.
After endless horrendous action with the reduction of the
Japanese fleet and the Conquest of Okinawa, the adoption of the
Kamikaze expedient. The civilian members of the Government
and the Emperor are pleading to make peace but Tojo swears he
can recover the initiative.
Then the bombs fall and the previous objections of the
militarists are pushed aside.
It takes us thru the struggle of Shigero after the war amid
the black market and schemes to get enough money and food to
eat. He has more operations on his arm and goes to school to learn
to draw with his remaining arm.
The Korean War starts and Japan profits. Things get a bit
better.
He becomes a Kamishibai artist drawing panels for a
performer who narrates the action and moves the panels but
toward the end of the volume that entertainment form is losing
popularity. He has created the characters that will later come to
populate his manga and the anime made from them.
In 1953 with his art tools and a few rice balls he moves to
Tokyo and the beginning of his career as a mangaka.
I borrowed the volume from the San Francisco Public Library,
about 9:50 AM and started reading it on the Streetcar then later on
the bus and I got home and started reading it again.
So it made me laugh and it made me cry. If I had the space
I would live on cheap food for some months and buy every one of
these volumes.
Thank you Shigeo Mizuki and thank you Drawn and Quarterly
for publishing this great work.
I hope that I get to read Volume 4 of this series.
bliss
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It's actually "Shigeru," but let's not be too picky.
Mizuki has gone back to the island decades after the war and the natives
still remembered him.
There's also a TV series about his family life based on the book written by
his wife.
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