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“Taniguchi's Keyaki no Ki adapts eight Utsumi stories into a mature reflection on rigid Japanese daily life.”

Keyaki no Ki

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7.48

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Seinen Slice of Life

8 chapters · 1 volumes · 1993 · Manga

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Taniguchi's Keyaki no Ki adapts eight Utsumi stories into a mature reflection on rigid Japanese daily life.

Keyaki no Ki is a collection of eight stories, selected from nearly two hundred of the great storyteller Ryuchiro Utsumi, these are the solid rock on which Taniguchi builds a deep, complex and mature reflection on daily life in Japanese society that has always been dominated by very strict schemes. Another masterpiece by Taniguchi, an author too huge to not be read.