A vivid account of life on the margins and Tokyo's 1970s underground culture from a Japanese folk legend

Tokyo in the 1970s was a magnet for young musicians, poets and painters. Among them was Kazuki Tomokawa, a prolific singer-songwriter from

Japan's northern provinces, whose guttural vocals and incisive lyrics earned him the unofficial title of “screaming philosopher.”

The stories in this memoir―originally published in 2015 in Japan and now appearing as the first English translation of Tomokawa's writing―are told with a rambler's wit and wisdom, bringing together his memorable reflections on six decades of day labor, drinking, gambling, acting, singing and writing. Figures such as Kan Mikami, Nobuyoshi Araki and Shūji Terayama drift through this down-and-out vagabond's memoir, which observes the turbulence of postwar countercultures and the explosion of Tokyo's underground film and music scenes.

一位日本民间传奇人物对边缘生活和东京1970年代地下文化的生动描述。

20世纪70年代的东京是一个吸引年轻音乐家、诗人和画家的地方。友川和树（Kazuki Tomokawa）是来自日本北部省份的多产歌手和作曲家，他粗犷的歌声和精辟的歌词为他赢得了“尖叫哲学家”的非官方称号。

这本回忆录最早于2015年在日本出版，现在作为友川作品的**个英译本出现，以漫游者的机智和智慧讲述，汇集了他60年来对劳动、饮酒、赌博、表演、唱歌和写作的难忘反思。在这本落魄的流浪者回忆录中，分享了三上宽（Kan Mikami）、荒木经惟（Nobuyoshi Araki）和寺山修司（Shūji Terayama）等人物的漂泊经历，记录了战后反文化的动荡以及东京地下电影和音乐场景的爆发式发展。