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Taniguchi created Kōnen no mori (Light-Year Forest) in the last two years of his life, when he was battling illness. It was published in Japan in 2017 in an unusual full-color, landscape format. Taniguchi said that he wanted to create scenery that seemed to express its own emotions.
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The collection Izanau mono (Tempting Things) includes works in science fiction, historical drama, modern, literary, and other genres, some of which are unfinished.
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Taniguchi’s early masterpiece Kaikei shuten was published as Hotel Harbour View in Canada in 1990. It was the first time foreign readers could encounter his art in translation.
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Taniguchi took inspiration from film noir in the illustrations for novelist Yahagi Toshihiko’s hard-boiled Manhattan Op.
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Botchan no jidai (trans. The Times of Botchan) took a decade to complete.
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Kodoku no gurume (The Solitary Gourmet), illustrated by Taniguchi and written by Kusumi Masayuki, is the most popular work associated with Taniguchi in Japan. Its simple tales of a man eating alone at various real-world restaurants is surprisingly appealing.
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Aruku hito (trans. The Walking Man) is another of Taniguchi’s 1990s works. A story told mainly by the pictures rather than the text, it has an atmosphere redolent of both bandes dessinées comics and the films of Ozu Yasujirō.
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A kind of holy text for dog lovers, Inu o kau (Owning a Dog) warmly depicts the relationship between pet and owner.
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The original picture for the cover of the mountaineering manga K.
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The original picture for the cover of Kamigami no itadaki (trans. The Summit of the Gods) has a power almost three-dimensional in nature.
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Taniguchi was eager to adapt to manga Ryōken tantei (Hunting Dog Detective), a hard-boiled and heart-warming novel of man and dog written by Inami Itsura.
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The original picture for the cover of Venezia.
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