【開箱．畫集】西村典子《空想街雜貨店的世界西村典子畫集》

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💡 Basic Information about the Book
💬 Book Review
📍 Official Introduction
📍 Book Table of Contents
📍 About the Author
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💡 Basic Information about the Book

TitleNoriko Nishimura's Art Collection: The World of the Fantasy Street General Store
Original Title: "Nishimura Noriko's Painting Collection: The World of Fantasy Street Shopping Shops"
English Title: “Nishimura Noriko Artwork – The World of Kuusoogaizakkaten”
Author:Nishimura Noriko
TranslatorXu Chengyi
PublisherRuisheng Culture
Publication Date: 2025-09-22
Language：Traditional Chinese
ISBN13: 9789864018475
BindingHardcover / 160 pages / 21 x 22 cm / General audience / Full color printing / First edition
Price780 yuan
GiftFantasy Street Cards x 2 (8 random designs)

💬 Book Review

20250925

"The World of the Fantasy Street General Store" is a collection of works by Japanese illustrator Noriko Nishimura.

Noriko Nishimura and her younger sister, Yuki Nishimura, run the "Kudougai General Store" together.Online store + Physical stores located in Kichijoji and Yokohama, Japan. The older sister mainly creates hand-drawn illustrations of fantasy towns, while the younger sister transforms these images into physical general merchandise.

This art book presents the visual world behind those fantastic towns and objects in book form!

The art collection has 160 pages, is hardcover, and is very easy to browse and enjoy.

This collection compiles illustrations of fantasy towns drawn between 2010 and 2024, spanning eight thematic chapters: Towns of the Sky, Towns of the Night, Towns of the Ocean, Towns of the Forest, Towns of the Earth, Towns of Food, Fantasy Cities, and Fantasy Rooms. It presents a vast and imaginative world! 🌃

There are many impressive towns—the Green Ancient City, the Town of Mint Chocolate, the Town of Clocks, the Kingdom of Stationery, the Kingdom of Forgotten Books…

Besides the town illustrations themselves, the collection also includes details such as transportation and architectural designs. 🚀

Each chapter concludes with a small column featuring various content, including artworks created before the establishment of the "Fantasy Street General Store," related merchandise, and more. The book also includes the design of the "Fantasy Street General Store," the creative process of the artworks, and an interview with the author.

After reading the entire work, I was completely captivated by its boundless imagination! It felt like stepping into the author's fantastical world, traveling to various themed towns – it was incredibly fun! 😍

📍 Official Introduction

Town, city, town
Miniature houses clustered together
This constitutes a rich and imaginative community of civilizations.
Imagine yourself living there
It immediately sparked a wealth of imagination.
A dreamlike picture book that resembles a catalog of fantasy architecture

The # comes with two beautiful Fantasy Street cards (8 designs in total, randomly selected).

Eight different themed fantasy worlds, with hundreds of imaginative and exquisite color illustrations.
Starting from a town, it creates an amazing work that combines childlike fun, imagination and art!

Have you ever fantasized about traveling to a dream world that doesn't exist in this world and is detached from logic?
There were no bustling vehicles, only neatly arranged rows, like the living quarters of the child soldiers in a nutcracker.
Or, in a forest full of autumn colors, where only orange hues are present, it is an autumn kingdom where autumn lasts all year round.
This book includes collaborative works by illustrator Noriko Nishimura and her sister Yuki Nishimura.
It brings together countless fantasy towns drawn between 2010 and 2024.
Here, you can also see the origins of the "Fantasy General Store" located in Kichijoji, Tokyo, and the Red Brick Warehouse in Yokohama.
The stories behind the establishment of many shops, the little secrets of creating fantastical general merchandise, and an exclusive interview with Noriko Nishimura!

▹Town in the Sky

The sky is filled with all sorts of strangely shaped spaceships, some from ancient times, weathered by the ages and now existing like nations, and others decorated in a steampunk style, resembling fish-like airships.

Town at night

The civilization of the night reigns supreme over the starry night sky, using the Milky Way as its canvas to construct glass cities; astronomers escape the hustle and bustle of the present world, observing the starry night alone in their secluded dwellings.

▹ Town by the Sea

In ocean-themed towns, there are bound to be strangely shaped fish. The back of a giant whale is the best place to live, and there are also places that look like a lighthouse from afar, but are actually a town up close.

▹ Forest Town

Fairy gardens, autumn kingdoms, mushroom-lined old streets in dark forests, lavender towns... Whether it's plants or food, they can all grow freely here according to color schemes and varieties.

Towns of the Earth

Like city ruins stretching across a desolate landscape, they exude an air of adventure. There are civilizations where the entire city is made of windmills, with the wind blowing at all times, and there are mineral metropolises that shimmer like the universe.

▹ Food Town

In the world of food, even the buildings become colorful and delicious. Do you prefer strawberries or chocolate? Living there, even the living things would probably become sweet! But there are also towns hidden deep behind cafe counters, serving delicious coffee 24/7!

▹ A Fantasy City

This world has everything, such as towns with only one color, or fortress-like kingdoms built by stationery. There are also mysterious towns themed around Kichijoji, where swans carry the Inokashira Forest and the Kichijoji district in the air.

▹ A Room of Fantasy

It's a collection of fantasy rooms within a fantasy town, or fantasy towns that extend from those rooms. Sounds interesting, right? Of course, the attic room might even have a mouse kingdom—this is how an imaginative child sees the attic room, so don't be too surprised.

📍 Book Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Town in the Sky
Chapter 2 The Town at Night
Chapter 3 The Town by the Sea
Chapter 4 The Town in the Forest
Chapter 5 Towns of the Earth
Chapter 6 The Town of Food
Chapter 7 Fantasy City
Chapter 8 The Room of Fantasy

📍 About the Author

Nishimura Noriko

Born in Tokyo in 1986. Graduated from Tokyo Gakugei University.

The painter and owner of the general store on Fantasy Street.

In 2016, we opened an online store called Fantasy Street General Store.

In 2022, she and her sister Yuki opened physical stores in Kichijoji and Yokohama.

His published works include "Illustrated Guide to the Fantasy Town" (Fantasy Town General Store), co-authored with his sister Yuki; "Travel Coloring Books of the Fantasy Town General Store"; "Travel Coloring Books of the Fantasy Town General Store POSTCARD BOOK"; and "Seasonal Pilgrimage Coloring Books of the Fantasy Town General Store" (Kawade Shobo Shinsha).

Fantasy General Store

A general store founded by the Nishimura sisters.

The older sister, Noriko, hand-draws fantastical towns, which the younger sister, Yuki, then designs and sells as various miscellaneous goods such as phone cases and calendars.

In 2024, "Flying Fish Cafe in the Fantasy Street" officially opened next to the Kichijoji main store!