Abandon the Old in Tokyo

Abandon the Old in Tokyo
A woman's flushed face is shown upside-down, with a speech bubble in Japanese indicating screaming
The cover of the paperback edition of Abandon the Old in Tokyo, showing a panel from "The Washer"
東京うばすて山
(Tōkyō Ubasuteyama)
GenreSlice of life[1]
Manga
Written byYoshihiro Tatsumi
English publisherDrawn & Quarterly
Magazine
PublishedAugust 1, 2006
Volumes1

Abandon the Old in Tokyo (東京うばすて山, Tōkyō Ubasuteyama) is a collection of gekiga short stories by manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi. It collects eight stories by Tatsumi from 1970, which were serialized in various manga magazines including Weekly Shōnen Magazine and Garo, and was published by Drawn & Quarterly on August 1, 2006. The manga won the 2007 Harvey Award for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material, sharing it with the first volume of Tove Jansson's Moomin. It was also nominated for the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Archival Collection/Project – Comic Books.

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