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Showa : a history of Japan, 1926-1939 / Shigeru Mizuki ; translator, Zack Davisson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publisher: [Montreal] : Drawn & Quarterly, 2013Edition: First paperback editionDescription: 533 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781770461352
  • 1770461353
Other title:
  • Showa, 1926-1939 : a history of Japan [Cover title]
Uniform titles:
  • Komikku Sh�owa shi. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 952.03/3 23
LOC classification:
  • DS888.5 M5913 2013
Summary: "First volume of Shigeru Mizuki's meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth century Japan. This volume deals with the period leading up to World War II, a time of high unemployment and other economic hardships caused by the Great Depression. Mizuki's photo-realist style effortlessly brings to life Japan of the 1920s and 1930s, depicting bustling city streets and abandoned graveyards with equal ease"--Publisher's website.
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Translation of: Komikku Sh�owa-shi.

Manga format; reads from back to front, right to left.

"First volume of Shigeru Mizuki's meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth century Japan. This volume deals with the period leading up to World War II, a time of high unemployment and other economic hardships caused by the Great Depression. Mizuki's photo-realist style effortlessly brings to life Japan of the 1920s and 1930s, depicting bustling city streets and abandoned graveyards with equal ease"--Publisher's website.

Translated from the Japanese.

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