Those passionate memories of the times are carefully taken away and cherished by us.
——The youth of Tokiwaso
Tokiwaso (Japanese: トキワ荘/ときわそう Tokiwa-sō) is a two-story wooden apartment located at 1616, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16, 16000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 The apartment is famous for having lived with many well-known manga artists such as Osamu Tezuka.
When he traveled from Osaka to Tokyo, Osamu Tezuka, who had just started his manga career, first spent the night on the second floor of a vegetable shop in Yotsuya. As his work grew to popularity, the editors who traveled back and forth every day to get the manuscript caused a lot of trouble for his home. Tezuka then decided to find a separate apartment where he could work without interruption or cause trouble to others.
The task of finding a new apartment fell on the head of Kenichi Kato, the editor of Manga Shonen, and the troublesome Kato sent the task to his son, who was his scalp to find a house for Tezuka, and finally, between Yamanote Line Meshirah Station and Shuma, which now belongs to the place of Minami Nagasaki Sanchome, he found a small two-story wooden apartment that had just been built, which was Tokiwasho.
It is also because of the greatness of Osamu Tezuka that it has attracted a group of manga people who love manga. They lived together in this humble little place. (Spit: K Jun collected through a series of information, in fact, Osamu Tezuka lived in Tokiwaso for a year), but Osamu Tezuka was the spiritual leader of Tokiwaso, ushering in a new era of manga.
In the era of post-World War II economic revival, it can be said that Osamu Tezuka single-handedly brought Japanese manga to a new level, redefining the operation mode of manga and creating a new anime model that combines manga and commercialization, and has been used to this day. Among them, the representative work "Astro Boy with Iron Arm" was also born in this period. In the future, I will have time to open a separate chapter for Tezuka and talk in detail about the life of the anime god
Including Fujiko Fujio, author of Doraemon and Smiley Face Salesman, Shōtaro Ishimori, author of Kamen Rider, fujitsuo Akatsuka, the king of funny manga, etc., a series of manga artists who seem to be ancient times today have left a period of passionate youth at Tokiwaso.
It is precisely because a group of young manga artists from all over the world who have traveled to Tokyo to chase their dreams, and a group of editors who often come to manga artists to ask for their original manuscripts, have made this humble place a "manga mecca". Later, Tokiwaso's big brother, Hiroo Terada, also set strict conditions of occupancy for Tokiwaso:
1. Achieved excellent results in the column "Manga Junior" [Manga Correspondence Book] hosted by Hiroo Terada
2, have a personality that can get along with people friendly and solid basic skills in comics
3. Have a strong will to really want to become a manga artist
Under such strict prior scrutiny, the people who can actually enter Tokiwaso already have the basic conditions for future brilliance, or it is not accidental that Tokiwaso has become a manga mecca, and to a certain extent, it has become a business incubator for those powerful young manga artists. No matter how much you put an aura on this place, you can't hide the pain of being a cartoonist in that era, and the real hunger and hunger, which has been mentioned in interviews with many cartoonists. In order to commemorate the hardships of Tokiwaso, Ishimori Shotaro also deliberately changed the protagonist's name to Tokiwa Shogo in "Kamen Rider". Even NHK once sent a camera crew to make a documentary for Tokiwaso.
This place of Tokiwaso has also appeared many times in the works of Osamu Tezuka, and the picture below is tokiwaso written by Daijin.
With Tokiwasho manga artists as the backbone member, he also founded the "New Manga Party" manga artist group organization, "Studio * Zero", an anime production company. By the end of the 1970s, the dilapidated Tokiwaso had become a pilgrimage site for manga fans, and manga fans who had come to visit idols on a sightseeing bus had climbed shoulders, and the "Pigeon" sightseeing company (Hato Bus) had even made Tokiwaso one of Tokyo's must-see spots.
In 1982, Tokiwaso was demolished and rebuilt, first into a more modern apartment, and later became the office building of the Japanese Minus Publishing House in response to the bubble economy and soaring housing prices. A year before the demolition, cartoonists who had lived in Tokiwaso and later scattered all over the world met here again to hold a "Tongzhuang Meeting" to send them off the last trip to the apartment where their youth had burned.
After the demolition of Tokiwaso, it has become a relic left in the hearts of manga fans, and in Minami-Nagasaki Hanabi Park, not far from this apartment, a monument called "Heroes of Tokiwaso" was erected, and above the stone monument was a model of tomasso's apartment, and in front of it was hung representative painters who had burned their youth here.
"Heroes of Tokiwaso" Until 2020, in order to welcome anime fans from all over the world during the Olympic Games, Tokyo's Toshima Ward decided to build a Tokiwaso Memorial Museum in Hanabi Park in Minami Nagasaki. This museum not only replicates the appearance of the Tokiwaso apartment one-to-one, but also the room inside restores the scene of the manga artists living in one-to-one, it can be said that the Tokiwaso Museum has moved the apartment that carries everyone's common memory to the same place as it was, which can be said to be a theme park for manga.
A small wooden building, Tokiwaso, a mecca for manga artists, ushered in the era of Japan's great manga! The will of the great gods and predecessors was passed on from generation to generation. Here, K Jun hopes that people who want to draw comics will be bold to draw, and not give up because they don't draw well. Only by bravely moving forward can it be possible to find the One Piece in your heart.