Tokyo's 100 Sights

★The best-selling collection of essays by Akutagawa Prize winners in history, an alternative personal biography of Naoki Matayoshi ★With Tokyo as the background, it directly addresses the lives and hearts of young people working hard in big cities. ★Written a love letter to Tokyo, but will never get a look back from it ★"I hope that the world will not deceive young people and swallow them as food." "100 Scenes of Tokyo" is composed of 100 short essays. Matayoshi Naoki recorded his ten years of experience when he moved from Osaka to Tokyo to pursue his dream of becoming an artist at the age of eighteen. During these ten years, he walked through all corners of Tokyo, and the memories and emotions related to them were embellished among them. "One Hundred Scenes of Tokyo" has a strong personal touch to Matayoshi. Because the writer Matayoshi admired, Osamu Dazai, wrote "Eight Scenes of Tokyo", it was named "One Hundred Scenes of Tokyo". Rather than the scenery of a certain time and place, Matayoshi focused his writing on his specific state of mind at that time, so when writing about Inokashira Park, Matayoshi did not write about the famous cherry blossom viewing spot, but about the foreign missionaries who chased him and thought "Naoki Matayoshi" was dead, and the old woman who sat by the pond and suggested that Matayoshi become a cowherd. The gorgeous fireworks blooming in the night sky of Odaiba and Harumi, the bustling izakayas in Kichijoji Harmonica Street, the long-established bar in Ginza where Osamu Dazai left his famous photo, the dusk and sunset in Musashino, the deserted streets running through with friends late at night... The various scene details and details in "Sparks" The prototypes can be found in "100 Scenes of Tokyo", where places and characters are intertwined with reality, the infinite possibilities of the city and the individual's nowhere to hide, the tug-of-war between excess self-awareness and catering to the world, etc. "100 Scenes of Tokyo" can be said to be the origin of Naoki Matayoshi's "Spark". Youji's writing style is simple, sincere and quite delicate. These short essays have initially demonstrated his extraordinary talents in comedy, reading and writing. However, the days before becoming famous are always cruel struggles. The experience of leaving home alone is both real and imaginary in Youji's writing. His sensitive and delicate character is undoubtedly revealed in the book. It is touching, sad, funny, and quite resonant to read.