Gold Pollen

赤とんぼ • Akatonbo • é»„é‡‘čŠ±ē²‰ • HuĆ”ngjÄ«n huāfěn • ?Seiichi Hayashi: Gold Pollen and Other Stories

Origination: Manga
Demographic: Seinen
Published: 1971
Status: šŸ“— Completed
Translation: šŸ“— Completed
Final Chapter: Volume 1, Chapter 4
Ranked: #47,578
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Seiichi Hayashi was a leading figure in the hotbed of avant-garde artistic production of 1960s and early 70s Tokyo.
He is best known for his lyrical and experimental manga for Garo, the famous alternative comics magazine.
This volume collects a selection of Hayashi’s most important manga from this period, including Red Dragonfly and Gold Pollen.
Published here in their original full color, these stories mix traditional Japanese aesthetics with Pop art sensibilities,
and range in topic from the legacies of Japanese rightwing nationalism and World War II, to the pervasive influence
of America over 1960s Japanese youth culture.
This first color reprinting of Hayashi’s work captures the vivid experimentation of Japanese art at this time.
In addition, Hayashi’s youth and beginnings as an artist are illuminated by an autobiographical essay from 1972,
translated here for the first time into English.
Art historian Ryan Holmberg discusses Hayashi’s place in postwar Japanese art and manga,
as well as his wider contributions to the Tokyo avant-garde as a designer and experimental animator.

More Info

Artists: Hayashi Seiichi
Authors: Hayashi Seiichi
Genres: Drama, Historical, Psychological, Philosophical
Format: Anthology
Publishers: Seirindo

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