{"id":5507,"date":"2010-05-13T15:23:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T22:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=5507"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:36:57","slug":"manga-reading-dude-in-inokashira-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/manga-reading-dude-in-inokashira-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Manga reading dude in Inokashira Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/08153012trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/08153012trim.jpg\" alt=\"toho rikimaru manga reading comics japanese\" title=\"\u6771\u65b9\u529b\u4e38\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While walking through <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/inokashira-flower-viewing-%E4%BA%95%E3%81%AE%E9%A0%AD%E3%81%AE%E3%81%8A%E8%8A%B1%E8%A6%8B\/>Inokashira Park<\/a> (\u4e95\u306e\u982d\u516c\u5712) last Saturday we stumbled upon Rikimaru Toho (\u6771\u65b9\u529b\u4e38), who I recognized from a piece I saw about him on TV. I asked him if he was the guy I saw on TV, and he said he was. We spoke only in Japanese, and he said he only does his manga readings in Japanese (while offering to do one for us). As Ryan contemplated which manga he would like Mr. Toho to read to us, he did one of his dramatic readings for another couple. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/08153210trim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/08153210trim.jpg\" alt=\"read manga reader inokashira koen shimokitazawa eki station\" title=\"manga collection of homeless looking japanese dude\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above is his collection of very faded manga which customers can choose from. If you&#8217;d like to experience \u6771\u65b9\u529b\u4e38 in person I understand he can usually be found in Inokashira Park on the weekends during the day or at Shimokitazawa Station on weekend nights. He looks like he could be homeless, and I hear he started in this line of work by selling used manga that others had thrown away, but who knows if these things are true? I will chat with him in more depth if I ever see him again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While walking through Inokashira Park (\u4e95\u306e\u982d\u516c\u5712) last Saturday we stumbled upon Rikimaru Toho (\u6771\u65b9\u529b\u4e38), who I recognized from a piece I saw about him on TV. I asked him if he was the guy I saw on TV, and he said he was. We spoke only in Japanese, and he said he only does his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[279,62,176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32442,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions\/32442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}