Polano Square

"Pollano Square? ---Oh yes, I heard about it too when I was little. It's probably the place where the festival is held in the middle of the fields. I think they're going to tell you the number of that narrow flower."
``Ah, that's an old tale, but it seems like it still exists these days.'' ---That's something you can't find with a magnet. A place not even on the map.

What they found as they walked through the fields illuminated by dim lights was...

The shades are expressed using pencil and charcoal, and the colors are beautifully expressed using watercolors. Enjoy the night with the depth of darkness and the brilliance of light.

[Profile]
Illustration: Miyakoshi Akiko
Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1982. Graduated from Musashino Art University.
From 2007, he lived in Berlin, Germany for one year.
In 2009, he won the Nissan Fairy Tale and Picture Book Grand Prix Award for ``Taifu ga Kuru.'' After winning the award, the same work was published by BL Publishing, making his debut as a picture book author.
In 2012, he won the Japan Picture Book Award for ``Mori no Oku no Ochakai e'' (Kaiseisha). His book ``Yoronokaeri Michi'' (Kaiseisha) won the Bologna Ragazzi Award (award for excellence in the fiction category) at the Bologna International Children's Book Exhibition and the New York Times New York Public Library Picture Book Award.
Other works include “Piano Happy Kai” and “Whose Is This?” ”, “My Travels” (Bronze Shinsha), “Nohara no Oheya” (Poplar Publishing), and “Kaichu Dento” (Fukuinkan Shoten).

●Art materials used: charcoal, watercolor, pencil/paper: charcoal paper

[Publication date] October 14, 2020