{"id":36542,"date":"2014-12-19T10:30:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=36542"},"modified":"2015-02-24T00:41:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T05:41:23","slug":"the-garden-of-words-by-makoto-shinkai-illustrated-by-midori-motohashi-translated-by-maya-rosewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-garden-of-words-by-makoto-shinkai-illustrated-by-midori-motohashi-translated-by-maya-rosewood\/","title":{"rendered":"The Garden of Words by Makoto Shinkai, illustrated by Midori Motohashi, translated by Maya Rosewood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/12\/Garden-of-Words2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-36550\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/12\/Garden-of-Words2-571x800.jpg\" alt=\"Garden of Words\" width=\"571\" height=\"800\"><\/a>Rainy mornings give first-year high school student Takao permission to skip class and head to a park pavilion to work on his shoe sketches. Someday, he wants to be a shoe designer. Two months into the new school year, he sees&nbsp;a young woman is already seated in the peaceful&nbsp;shelter. Takao wonders aloud if they have met before, but&nbsp;her answer is ambivalent. A tenuous connection begins, creating&nbsp;a garden of words <em>\u00e0 deux<\/em> &nbsp;\u2013 said, unsaid, written&nbsp;\u2013 that promises&nbsp;much&nbsp;more to come.<\/p>\n<p>Their rainy mornings that follow seem to be the only bright moments&nbsp;for the lonely pair.&nbsp;Yukino&nbsp;drinks beer and eats chocolate: &#8220;Everyone has their own little quirks,&#8221; she explains. He draws and dreams, telling her about his alcoholic mother, his difficulties in achieving his goals. And he cooks her delicious snacks that nourish far beyond&nbsp;her abused&nbsp;appetite.&nbsp;He talks, she listens more, until she reveals the cause of her&nbsp;isolated silence and&nbsp;he unleashes his trapped emotions &#8230; words are not quite enough for&nbsp;what lies ahead. <\/p>\n<p>Inspired by an award-winning 2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/100020051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">animated film<\/a> of the same name, and directed by Makoto Shinkai who also helmed the gorgeous<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/5-centimeters-per-second-by-makoto-shinkai-illustrated-by-yukiko-seike-translated-by-melissa-tanaka\/\" target=\"_blank\">5 Centimeters Per Second<\/a>,<\/em> this manga adaptation by Midori Motohashi veers substantially from celluloid&nbsp;to panels&nbsp;in the final minutes\/pages. [Be sure to watch beyond the credits in the film for the full ending!] Without creating too much of a spoiler, perhaps Motohashi&#8217;s&nbsp;decision to alter the ending&nbsp;becomes clear in her&nbsp;closing&nbsp;illustration of Yukino and Takao which appears with her many acknowledgements of gratitude. The mismatched pair is shown holding hands, walking together, and yet an 8-year-old Takao seems embarrassed and upset, his eyes averted angrily away, while an indulgent, 20-year-old Yukino gazes down at him with warmth and adoration. Enough said \u2013 you&#8217;ll need to read for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Eighth-century&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/text\/poetic-form-tanka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">tanka<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>(including an adorable lesson on appreciating poetry at story&#8217;s end), cleansing rain, the power of language&nbsp;to destroy and heal, the innocence of youth, special shoes for both encouraging&nbsp;and learning to walk again&nbsp;\u2013 that&#8217;s just some of what grows in&nbsp;this haunting, transforming&nbsp;garden of words. Ready for a visit? Come in from the rain and watch what happens &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2014 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainy mornings give first-year high school student Takao permission to skip class and head to a park pavilion to work on his shoe sketches. Someday, he wants to be a shoe designer. 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