[DeepL Translation - needs review] The world is full of unknowns. ......
The Naked General's Curious Questions and Answers
Wearing short pants, a shaved head, and carrying a backpack, Kiyoshi wandered around Kyushu, San-in, and Tohoku. When Kiyoshi heard the words, "I, too, am a man like Kiyoshi Yamashita with hair on my head," he asked, "What hair on my head makes me who I am?
This is a wanderlust chronicle with sketches and writings that will make you laugh and think at the same time.
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Diaries/snippets from 山下清 , along with lots of weird and wonderful pictures of his art.
I knew nothing about him coming into this, but he was gifted artist with relatively severe form of autism.
He became famous in Japan for his wanderings across the country, and a lot of the book is little snippets of different places/traditions around Japan.
The writing is quite unusual (lots of words have an odd mix of kanji, e.g. 飛行機 might be ひ行き）, and there’s a handful of dated and/or downright odd thoughts.
But really interesting to read about someone I’d never had a chance to otherwise.