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"Ragged" isIt has long been used as a recycled cotton product

The Hakusan Maru was the last ship to leave France carrying Japanese people fleeing the war and carrying Japanese painters such as Taro Okamoto

and even former colonies such as Mukden and Jinan

As the title of the book is written in the plural "Trees

ryoji arai painting op 18 bookart "Ragged" isIt has long beenop. 18 Title: "Oh, I can play the violin a little bit." I wanted to draw each picture one by one and make a book with just those pictures. And I didn't want to just collect all the original drawings I'd done so far, without clearly defining the beginning and end like a picture book. I wanted to draw pictures that could be turned into a picture book later. From the interview at the end of "Picture Books Before They Became Picture Books" by Ryoji Arai