Japan Fishing Villages & Port Towns Coloring Book

About this book

Sixty real fishing villages and port towns of Japan — and every one of them ready to color.

Japan still works the sea from a thousand small harbors, and each one has its own fish, its own boats and its own dawn. This book travels that working coast from the top of Hokkaido to the coral sea of Okinawa, and every stop is a real place in its real view: the tuna quay of Oma where a single fish can sell for the price of a house, the squid morning market of Yobuko loud before sunrise, the snow-crab fleets of Kasumi, Hamasaka and Sakaiminato, bonito smoke drifting over Makurazaki and Yaizu, the stone-built village of Manazuru, the stone-terrace shore of Sotodomari, and the rebuilt scallop port of Onagawa rising on its hill above the Sanriku coast.

Every subject appears as a two-page spread: on one side, a full-color guide — a photograph of the place today — with a short, fascinating story of the port, its fishery and its people, and exactly how to color it; on the other side, a detailed coloring page of the very same view, converted from the real photograph so the scene you color is the scene itself.

Inside you will find: • Hokkaido and the Okhotsk coast — Wakkanai, Japan's northernmost working port under its great breakwater dome; the saury harbor of Hanasaki in Nemuro; kelp-and-salmon Rausu under the Shiretoko mountains; Abashiri and drift-ice Monbetsu • Tohoku and Sanriku — Oma's tuna quay, the squid port of Ajigasawa, Funakawa on the Oga Peninsula, Noshiro and Sakata on the old kitamae coast, and the great rebuilt harbors of Miyako, Kamaishi, Ofunato, Kesennuma, Onagawa, Ishinomaki and the whaling port of Ayukawa • Kanto and the Pacific side — Onahama, Nakaminato's fish-market port, the bonito harbor and morning market of Katsuura in Chiba, lobster-port Ohara, Tateyama under its castle hill, Misaki's tuna quay, Odawara, stone-built Manazuru, and Yaizu, Japan's bonito and tuna capital • Tokai, Kii and the Japan Sea — shirasu-whitebait Mochimune, Toyohama, rain-soaked Owase, Teradomari's fish-market street, yellowtail Himi facing the Tateyama range, river-mouth Mikuni, and crab-port Echizen • Kansai, San'in and the Inland Sea — Akashi's fish market under the great bridge, the crab ports of Kasumi and Hamasaka, Sakaiminato, Hamada, Hagi's fishing harbor beyond the castle town, and Shimotsui under the Seto Ohashi • The Kii Peninsula and Shikoku — tuna port Katsuura (Nachikatsuura), Kushimoto where two currents meet, sea-turtle town Hiwasa, stone-terrace Sotodomari, and the bonito ports of Tosashimizu and Susaki • Kyushu and Okinawa — Tsuyazaki, squid-famous Yobuko, Saiki, Aburatsu, Nobeoka, the Satsuma ports of Makurazaki, Yamagawa, Kushikino and pilgrim-port Bonotsu, and finally Itoman, the coral-sea fishing port of Okinawa • 60 full-color guides with the story of each harbor (80–97 words each) • None of these sixty subjects appeared in our previous Japan coloring books

Sixty working harbors of net and tide, one long journey from the drift ice of the Okhotsk to the coral sea — bring pencils, and take your time.

Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.