The Travels of Marco Polo: A Lecture on Observing Romance in the City

This is a legendary love story that was serialized in 14 installments in "Young Sunday" in 1987 and has never been published as a book. The protagonist, Yoshitaro, is suddenly visited by a girl named Kimidori who declares, "You are my fiancé." Her grandmother and Yoshitaro's grandfather were passionate lovers but were never able to be together, and she has entrusted her feelings to her grandson. Kimidori entices him, saying, "If you act as my fiancé, we can go to various places together, take pictures, and send them to my grandmother in America, and you'll receive a huge inheritance!" Thus begins their strange exploration of Tokyo... Visiting Ginza, the National Diet Building, Nakano Broadway, Kunitachi, Harajuku, Enoshima, Inokashira Park, Aoyama Cemetery, Kanda Jimbocho, and other locations, this long-awaited new book brilliantly depicts the realistic lives of young people in the late 1980s, the scenery of Tokyo, and the sense of the times.