Tokiwa Manor Playback

"Tokiwa-Sou Playback" ("Tokiwa-Sou Monogatari" in the Japanese subtitle) is a 490+ page tribute to the building where Tezuka lived and worked from 1953 to 1954, and 13 of the people that either also lived there or visited a lot. The Tokiwa Manor apartment building was just west of Ikebukuro station. It was torn down in the 80's, but for 2 years shrtly after it was built in 1952, Tezuka used it as his studio, and some of the artists continued living there afterward. Essentially, Tokiwa was a 2-story building sectioned off into small rooms with a common kitchen and shared toilet. It was in with a number of similar buildings in kind of an artist's enclave.

The rights to "Tokiwa-Sou Playback" belong to their respective owners.  Pages are reprinted here for review purposes only.

The book is divided up into separate sections for each artist. Many of the stories dedicated to the memories of Tokiwa Manor first appeared in Tezuka's COM magazine (his answer to Garo) in late 1969 and early 1970. The book itself was first printed in 1987 for 1500 yen, and is 500 pages. ISBN4-905579-90-2.




Fujio Akatsuka
 Shotaro Ishinomori
Shinichi Suzuki
Jirou Tsunoda
Osamu Tezuka
Hirou Terada
Takemaru Nagata
Kunio Nagatani
Fujio Fujiko
Eiko Mizuno
Naoya Moriyasu
Tokuo Yokota
Takao Yokoyama
Akira Maruyama


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