Grave of the Fireflies Postcard, Town for Evacuation

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Postcard
Format: A6 (14.8 × 10.5 cm), landscape

Image board by Nizō Yamamoto for Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies (1988). Ripening rice fields and traditional houses lie under a heavy summer sky: the countryside where Seita and Setsuko seek refuge. Yamamoto set out to paint what he called the “feeling of the air”.

Around 120 of Nizō Yamamoto's original paintings are on view in Nizō Yamamoto: Master of Anime Scenography at the Tchoban Foundation, Berlin, until 10 January 2027.

The same painting is available as a Solegraph edition. More by Nizō Yamamoto: the book Nizō Yamamoto: Art for Animation.

© Akiyuki Nosaka / Shinchōsha, 1988

Postcard
Format: A6 (14.8 × 10.5 cm), landscape

Image board by Nizō Yamamoto for Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies (1988). Ripening rice fields and traditional houses lie under a heavy summer sky: the countryside where Seita and Setsuko seek refuge. Yamamoto set out to paint what he called the “feeling of the air”.

Around 120 of Nizō Yamamoto's original paintings are on view in Nizō Yamamoto: Master of Anime Scenography at the Tchoban Foundation, Berlin, until 10 January 2027.

The same painting is available as a Solegraph edition. More by Nizō Yamamoto: the book Nizō Yamamoto: Art for Animation.

© Akiyuki Nosaka / Shinchōsha, 1988