Puffin, New York, 1996, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 0-14-037826-X.  Trade soft cover, 149 pages.  Unread remaindered copy, small scrape on rear fore-edge wrap, some colour chipping along spine edges.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘The compelling true story of a young Japanese artist.  Kiyoi is the name given to the boy by his new teacher, the famous cartoonist Noro Shinpei.  But Master Noro will pass on much more than a nickname to Kiyoi, a thirteen-year-old living in Tokyo after World War II.  His apprenticeship is an awakening, full of unusual sights, sounds, and people – from his shrewd and restless fellow-apprentice Tokida to the karate teacher who introduces Kiyoi to Tokyo’s surreal nightlife.  Above all, there is the art, which reaches down into Kiyoi’s soul and pulls things out of him he never knew he had.’ (from rear wrap)