“THERMAE ROMAE “ is a blockbuster Japanese comic series
which connects Ancient Rome and contemporary Japan through bathing culture.
Mari Yamazaki,
author of the series, talks in depth about cool guys of all ages and cultures
and their extraordinary skills and fertile visions, from Hadrian and Raphael to
Kobo Abe and Steve Jobs. All of them are cosmopolitan men who defied the
established ways of doing things and opened up new dimensions. The lives of
these men evoke the image of Yamazaki’s own life in which she went to Italy at
the age of 17 and has traveled around the world since.
One of the best
things we can learn from this book might be the suggestions of how we ourselves
can lay a path to a new age; how every one of us can “sow seeds of
renaissance,” as Yamazaki tells us while shaking up Japan’s introverted and passive mentality.
This is a
powerful book, which would give a good kick up the backside to women who want
to live a more ambitious life and also to men who want to come out of their
shells.
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Translated
by A. Tawara
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