The way Tsuge depicts the thoughts of the main character, not in thought balloons but as voice-over narrative (so that the readers will enter the character's interior world) will later inspire female comics artists in the '70s.

"If I could only see the sea, no matter the place. I got off in the desolated station of Nhô."

Yanagi-ya shujin ©Tsuge Yoshiharu

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