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Jirō Taniguchi

Born

in Tottori Prefecture, Japan

August 14, 1947

Died

February 11, 2017

Genre

Manga, Historical Fiction

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Name (in native language): 谷口ジロー
Zodiac: Leo

He began to work as assistant of the late mangaka Kyota Ishikawa.
He made his manga debut in 1970 with Kareta Heya (A Desiccated Summer), published in the magazine Young Comic.
From 1976 to 1979, he created several hard-boiled comics with the scenarist Natsuo Sekigawa, such as City Without Defense, The Wind of the West is White and Lindo 3.
From 1984 to 1991, Tanigushi and Natsuo Sekigawa produced the trilogy Bocchan No Jidai.
In the 1990s, he came up with several albums, among which Aruku Hito (歩くひと), Chichi no koyomi (The Almanac of My Father), and Keyaki no ki.
In 2001, he created the Icare (Icaro) series on texts by Mœbius.
Jirô Taniguchi gained several prizes for his work. Among others, the Osamu ...more

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	Quartier lointain by Jirō Taniguchi, 谷口ジロー 4.39 avg rating — 5,287 ratings — published 1998 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Walking Man 3.96 avg rating — 3,826 ratings — published 1990 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El almanaque de mi padre by Jirō Taniguchi, Geni Bigas (Translator), Yayoi Kagoshima (Translator) 4.37 avg rating — 2,959 ratings — published 1994 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Le Gourmet solitaire by Jirō Taniguchi (Illustrator), Masayuki Kusumi 3.87 avg rating — 2,263 ratings — published 1997 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Summit of the Gods Volume 1 by Jirō Taniguchi, Baku Yumemakura (Goodreads Author) 4.35 avg rating — 1,806 ratings — published 2000 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quartier lointain (Quartier Lointain, #1) 4.19 avg rating — 1,690 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guardians of the Louvre (Musée du Louvre #11) by Jirō Taniguchi, Kumar Sivasubramanian (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 1,737 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Un zoo en hiver by Jirō Taniguchi, Casterman (Editor) 3.95 avg rating — 1,484 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Summit of the Gods Volume 2 by Jirō Taniguchi, Baku Yumemakura (Goodreads Author) 4.48 avg rating — 1,129 ratings — published 2001 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quartier lointain (Quartier lointain, #2) 4.24 avg rating — 1,134 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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A Distant Neighborhood / 遥かな町へ (2 books)
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The Summit of the Gods / 神々の山嶺 (5 books)
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Baku Yumemakura (Goodreads Author)

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Le Journal de mon père (4 books)
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Yayoi Kagoshima (Translator)

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孤独のグルメ [Kodoku no Gourmet] (2 books)
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Masayuki Kusumi,

Patrick Honnoré (Translator)

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Sensei no kaban (センセイの鞄) (2 books)
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“Nobody truly becomes an adult. The child we have been is always there, deep inside of us. As time passes, we think we're growing, but maturity is only an illusion; a hindrance to our free child soul.”
― Jirō Taniguchi

tags: adulthood, childhood

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“My hometown... was always there, at all times, unchanging. What I think... is not that we go back to our hometowns, but that someday our hometowns come back into each of our hearts.”
― Jirō Taniguchi, A Journal Of My Father

tags: hometown

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“The Louvre is a labyrinth existing in the space between dream and reality... within each and every (work of art) resides a soul... a requiem for the spirits living within each thing.”
― Jirō Taniguchi, Les Gardiens du Louvre

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