Book cover, mostly matte black with 4 small white rectangles, as if looking through a paneled window. An illustrated family sits at a table and shares a cake with sparklers on top. Text in English reads "Records of the seasons - SAKI OBATA" under Kanji.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustrations, one on each page. First is of 2 people stoking a fire outdoors from a tall cylinder. Other features 2 students inside of a classroom, with empty cubbies. One sits atop a heating unit and the other reads a book.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustrations spanning both pages. A exterior sidewalk setting with iron gates, lampposts and tall trees. A woman carrying lots of bags stands in the middle, looking off the the side.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustrations of a woman, dressed in a suit coat and long pleated skirt. She holds a tube in her hand and does 3 different poses. Looking, writing with chalk, and covering her crying face.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustration on one page and Japanese and English text on the other. Drawing is of a woman facing away, looking over the side of a fenced waterway with a long stick in one hand.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustration on one page and Japanese and English text on the other that says "Fall." Illustration is of 4 women on a porch, 3 waving goodbye and the other standing and waving, ready to go back inside.
Book cover, mostly matte black with 4 small white rectangles, as if looking through a paneled window. An illustrated family sits at a table and shares a cake with sparklers on top. Text in English reads "Records of the seasons - SAKI OBATA" under Kanji.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustrations, one on each page. First is of 2 people stoking a fire outdoors from a tall cylinder. Other features 2 students inside of a classroom, with empty cubbies. One sits atop a heating unit and the other reads a book.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustrations spanning both pages. A exterior sidewalk setting with iron gates, lampposts and tall trees. A woman carrying lots of bags stands in the middle, looking off the the side.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustrations of a woman, dressed in a suit coat and long pleated skirt. She holds a tube in her hand and does 3 different poses. Looking, writing with chalk, and covering her crying face.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustration on one page and Japanese and English text on the other. Drawing is of a woman facing away, looking over the side of a fenced waterway with a long stick in one hand.
Open 2 page excerpt, all black and white featuring simple line art illustration on one page and Japanese and English text on the other that says "Fall." Illustration is of 4 women on a porch, 3 waving goodbye and the other standing and waving, ready to go back inside.

Records of the Seasons by Saki Obata

$ 25.00

Measures 5 and 7/8 x 8.25 inches, paperback, 160 pages, black and white.

Follow along through beautiful and elegantly simple illustrations pages, the four seasons, a story in a year as depicted by Japanese illustrator and designer, Saki Obata.