![]() ![]() He flies on the wings of a hawk and dives down into the river depths with turtles and otters. The surveyor’s mission is a scientific one, but his heart is full of beauty, and his mind goes on flights of fancy. The world around him is of ukiyo-e and haiku. His footsteps carry him through the works of artist Utagawa Hiroshige and the poet Kobayashi Issa. His lead character, the surveyor, wanders through a bustling town, full of life and the goings-on of ordinary people. But this is Jiro Taniguchi.Īnyone who has read his 1992 comic The Walking Man knows Taniguchi can easily make a captivating work of art about a person taking a walk. ![]() ![]() Page after page he walks his course, counting his steps. To achieve his purpose, he walks the same path every try, training himself to keep an accurate step as a human measuring wheel. In a time before accurate measuring devices, a man hopes to calculate the distance of one degree along a meridian. Their latest offering is two comics, the 2011 black-and-white Furari and the 2014 painted Venice, which was commissioned by fashion company Louis Vuitton.įurari’s plot is hardly enticing. He left behind a trove of works that are slowly making their way to English via Fanfare/Ponent Mon. He was a rare talent with unique vision, able to summon up beautiful worlds of quiet reflection. The world of comics lost a great artist when Jiro Taniguchi (1947–2017) died last year. ![]()
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