VOLUME 42
NAGASAKI
Glover Garden, Gunkanjima Island & Megane Bridge
Late afternoon at Megane-bashi. A foreign visitor leans her elbows on the rail and watches the two stone arches finish their circles in the river below, twin ovals knit by a slow current. A schoolgirl behind her pauses to do the same. Somewhere uphill, a tram bell answers a temple bell. In Shinchi the lanterns are already being checked for the next festival, lacquer paper unrolled across a workbench, and at Sofukuji the eaves throw their Ming geometry over a courtyard of pale gravel. By dusk it will rain at Glover Garden, the kind of soft rain that beads on clapboard and turns the verandas into long polished mirrors. On Fukue, the priest at a Goto chapel is lighting the candles for vespers, the sea outside the door pulled flat by tide. Out on Kunchi's first afternoon the dragon will come down a Chinatown lane on its bamboo poles, scales rolling, the procession threading between paper lanterns and the smell of champon broth. Honey sponge cooling on a baker's rack. A folded crane left at the peace bell in Urakami. The black silhouette of Hashima holding the horizon. Forty pages here, drawn from a prefecture where Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese and Japanese hours sit beside one another in the same dim light.
“Forty quiet pages from a hybrid port city.”
- 40 original Nagasaki Prefecture illustrations
- Single-sided pages to prevent bleed-through
- 8.5 x 8.5 inch square format
- A mix of detailed and breathable compositions
- Brief editorial introduction to Nagasaki
- Anyone with an interest in Japan, its port history, and its island landscapes
- Adults who use coloring for relaxation and quiet focus
- A considered gift for friends and family with a love of Japan
The Nagasaki coloring book is Volume 42 of Sora Mikami's Prefectures of Japan series, a 47-volume collection that explores Japan one prefecture at a time. It gathers 40 original black-line illustrations of Nagasaki. It draws on Glover Garden, Gunkanjima Island, and Megane Bridge, alongside the everyday scenes Nagasaki considers its own.
You will find Glover Garden, Gunkanjima Island, and Megane Bridge, together with the landmarks, food, and quiet corners that give Nagasaki its character. The compositions move between detailed, intricate pages and calmer, more breathable ones, so there is something for every mood.
Yes. The book mixes detailed illustrations with more open, breathable designs, so beginners and experienced colorists alike can settle in. The large 8.5 x 8.5 inch square pages give you plenty of room to work, and every page is printed single-sided.
Colored pencils, markers, and gel pens all work beautifully. Because every illustration is printed single-sided on white paper, you can use heavier media without bleed-through onto another design. Slip a sheet of card behind the page if you want to be sure.
It is Volume 42 of a planned 47, one book for every Japanese prefecture. The volumes can be coloured in any order, and together they sketch the whole country one place at a time. Nagasaki sits in the Kyushu & Okinawa region of Japan.
