Takahama Kan

Rose has just turned forty when she gets a call from a lawyer asking her to come to Kyoto for the reading of her estranged father's will. And so for the first time in her life she finds herself in Japan, where Paul, her father's assistant, is waiting to greet her. As Paul guides Rose along a mysterious itinerary designed by her deceased father, her bitterness and anger are soothed by the stones and the trees in the Zen gardens they move through. During their walks, Rose encounters acquaintances of her father—including a potter and poet, an old lady friend, his housekeeper and chauffeur—whose interactions help her to slowly begin to accept a part of herself that she has never before acknowledged. As the reading of the will gets closer, Rose's father finally, posthumously, opens his heart to his daughter, offering her a poignant understanding of his love and a way to accept all she has lost.

Third and last installment of Takahama's Nagasaki trilogy.

Sad Girl is a single-volume anthology by Takahama Kan containing five short story, including the titular "Sad Girl" which centers on Shiori Murakami, a housewife. After overdosing on sleeping pills, she is rushed to the hospital. The next day, she disappears, never to be seen again. Note: Nominated for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2017.

In 1878, as the wave of Western culture spreads through Japan, Miyo, a girl orphaned in the Satsuma Rebellion, works at a curio shop in Nagasaki called Vingt. The dresses, sewing machines, binoculars, boots, and other items acquired at the Paris Exhibition by the proprietor Momotoshi Koura have aroused her curiosity. Miyo accumulates experience in her job while using the clairvoyant ability she has possessed since she was very young. This story vibrantly depicts a new age coming to a Nagasaki thriving with merchants and prostitutes, centering on Miyo's changes as she begins to experience feelings for Momotoshi akin to the awakening of love, and Momotoshi's past, which gradually comes to light. Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize 2020 - Grand Prize Winner

Maruyama, Nagasaki's pleasure district — where the music of shamisens mingles with the language of foreign lands. From artist Kan Takahama comes a tale of love and death: a beautiful courtesan, a man on his deathbed, and their secret past… Nominated for the 20th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2016.

The story begins in Tokyo, in 1926. Ishin, a writer for an erotic magazine, meets Aki, a young woman who works as an art model. Despite the circumstances of their meeting, their love is pure and innocent. However, the shadow of the war is threatening their idyll...

Benjamin, 42, author of comics, goes in search of an unknown Asian woman with whom he shared, seventeen years ago, a love of a night that marked many. His quest leads him to meet Michihiko, café boss very little talent for coffee but very nice, with whom he soon enters into a friendly relationship. The two men, crossing one and au be a difficult passage in their love life, confide their difficulties. After a series of misunderstandings tasty, Benjamin eventually, against all odds, find the one he is looking for, while Michihiko succeed, through his new friend, reconnect the son of his relationship with his wife Miho. He will succeed even significantly improve coffee production technique.

A troubled young woman collapses drunk in a pool outside an old folks’ home, prompting a moment of lucidity from a senile old man inside, and forming a bond between the woman and the old man’s former mistress.

This is an adaptation of Marguerite Duras semi autobiographical novel of the same name. NOTE: This entire manga reads from LEFT to RIGHT instead of the usual Right to Left. Don't get confused now.

A collaboration between acclaimed mangaka Kan Takahama, french writer Emmanuelle Maisonneuve and Kodansha's Morning Magazine. Emma has a gift, that of taste. Thanks to the finesse of her taste buds, she manages to become an inspector for the prestigious Michelin Guide and realize her dream: discovering the secrets of chefs. Her path is littered with obstacles. She is sent to travel the length and breadth of the streets of France to visit hotels and restaurants. She happens to eat too much, sometimes badly, and clashes with the machismo of the environment. However, guided by her passion for cooking and her unstoppable independence, she will experience an extraordinary sensorial and human adventure that will take her all the way to Japan.

8 episodes about life and love of a modern generation, about people who are at a turning point in their life: a woman who breaks up with her married lover; a couple who passionately says goodbye; parents who tell their children something surprising; a neighbour who questions her relationship after eavesdropping through the thin wall of the bathroom. Stories full of melancholy, real pleasure, passion and subtle humor.