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Tokyo at Night by Mateusz Urbanowicz

Mateusz Urbanowicz, also known as Matto, is a Polish artist and illustrator currently based in Tokyo. He originally moved to Japan to study animation and comics and he landed himself a gig at Tokyo-based animation film studio CoMix Wave, where he did backgrounds for, among other things, the film “Your Name.”

In 2017 he left the studio and began working as a freelancer so he could focus on personal projects like Tokyo Storefronts. His latest project is Tokyo at Night, a series of 10 watercolors illustrating the backstreets of Tokyo at night. The 10 illustrations were created along a path from Kudanshita that goes through the neighborhood of Kagurazaka and ends at Waseda.

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Natsume Yuujinchou, Hitoyoshi, 2008~?; Hitoyoshi City, Kumamoto prefecture, 2017

Hitoyoshi City
(人吉市) was one of those areas in Kumamoto I’ve wanted to do for an unbelievably long while now because of my unabashed love for Natsume Yuujinchou, and finally the time has come! But it was also one of those trips where small oversights meant huge misadventures along the way. I actually passed by a few locations without knowing they were scenes from the anime till later, though they mostly came from areas out of Hitoyoshi (like Kumamoto and
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station). ”You should have done your homework properly”, I remind my inner child. But ah, such is life.

The places featured are: 1~3:Tengu Bridge (天狗橋)
4~5: Hitoyoshi Station (人吉駅), 6~7: Tamachi Sugawara Tenmangu Shrine(田町菅原天満宮)
8: Kuma-gawa/Kuma River
(球磨川) 9~10:Hitoyoshi Castle ruins park (人吉城跡). Not a bad roundup, all things considered.

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