The wife of Japan-s most lauded manga-ka documents a year in their lives with her own artistry.
In 1981, Fujiwara Maki began a picture diary about daily life with her son and husband, the legendary manga author Tsuge Yoshiharu. Publishing was not her original intention. -I wanted to record our family-s daily life while our son, Shosuke, was small. But as 8mm cameras were too expensive and we were poor, I decided on the picture diary format instead. I figured Shosuke would enjoy reading it when he got older.-
Drawn in a simple, personable style, and covering the same years fictionalized in Tsuge-s final masterpiece The Man Without Talent, Fujiwara-s journal focuses on the joys of daily life amidst the stresses of childrearing, housekeeping, and managing a depressed husband. A touching and inspiring testimony of one Japanese woman''s resilience, My Picture Diary is also an important glimpse of the enigma that is Tsuge. Fujiwara-s diary is unsparing.
