A factory worker, who keeps a pet monkey, is forced off a packed train at the wrong stop. He visits the Ueno Zoo, where the monkeys get agitated at him. One day, in a fit of anger, he writes a resignation letter.

Volume 1, Chousou (鳥葬): 
1. Sky Burial (鳥葬) 
2. Rash (じんましん) 
3. Shiiku (飼育) 
4. Forked Road (わかれみち) 
5. Beloved Monkey (いとしのモンキー) 
6. Mittsuko no Shoutoku Taishi (三つ子の聖徳太子) 
7. Just a Man (男一発) 
8. Eel (うなぎ) 
9. Hotarubi (蛍火) 
10. Good-bye (グッドバイ) 
11. Sheets wo Shiku Onna (シーツを敷く女) 

Volume 2, Cup no Naka no Taiyou (コップの中の太陽): 
1. Cup no Naka no Taiyou (コップの中の太陽) 
2. Buttsuke Taiyou (ぶっつけ太陽) 
3. Michikusa Onna (みちくさ女) 
4. Hana Ijime (花いじめ) 
5. Chiisa na Kokyou (ちいさな故郷) 
6. Kawaita Hana (乾いた花) 
7. Ueno Asakusa Yukidomari (上野・浅草ゆきどまり) 
8. Hatajuku Aoyama Tooriame (原宿・青山・通り雨) 
9. Nakibukuro (泣きぶくろ) 
10. The Dawn of Porn (夜明けのポルノ) 
11. Kita no Yado (北の宿) 
12. Midnight Fishermen (真夜中の吊り飾り) 
13. Otoko wo Kau (男を飼う) 
14. Shinjuku Urami Uta (新宿うらみ唄) 
15. Zenbu Miraremasu (ぜんぶ見られます)

Contains nine stories originally published between 1970 and 1972. Also includes "Choushou ̄Ten Gong", a previously uncollected 50-page work first seen in the pages of Weekly Manga Times in 1979 and reprinted here for the first time. 
1. Jigoku (地獄) 
2. Occupied (はいってます) 
3. Just a Man (男一発) 
4. Who Are You? (さそり) 
5. Shiiku (飼育) 
6. Abandon the Old in Tokyo (東京うばすて山) 
7. Beloved Monkey (いとしのモンキー) 
8. Good-bye (グッドバイ) 
9. Choushou: Ten Gong (弔鐘ーテンゴング)

A collection of short stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. 
 
1. Otoko Ippatsu (男一発, Just a Man) 
2. Haittemasu (はいってます, Occupied) 
3. Wakaremichi (わかれみち, Forked Road) 
4. Sasori (さそり) 
5. Shiiku (飼育) 
6. Tokyo Ubasuteyama (東京うばすて山, Abandon the Old in Tokyo) 
7. Kemono Namida (けもの・なみだ) 
8. Kotsu Kotsu Kotsu (コツコツコツ, Click Click Click) 
9. ORIZURU -S-kun e no Tegami- (ORIZURU -S君への手紙-) 
10. Saikai (再会) 
11. Itoshi no Monkey (いとしのモンキー, Beloved Monkey) 
12. Goodbye (グッドバイ) 
13. Daihakken (大発見) 
 
Several of the stories in this collection were published in English by Drawn & Quarterly in the collections Abandon the Old in Tokyo and Goodbye in 2009. 
 
(Source: Wikipedia)

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