Published in Japan in 1997 and in the U.S. in 1999, his book is a glossy little glut of photos and texts that zestfully celebrates a hundred or so tiny Tokyo residences, most of them crammed to their varyingly slovenly gills with clothes, books, audiotapes, CDs, art works, posters, and pop knickknacks.
Unbeknownst to this tense little family, the former tenants are still in residence: tiny, toothy creatures who whisper in the walls and scrabble in the skirting, occasionally poking a miniature claw in the direction of a human body part.
The tiny wallpapered, Victorian residences from the early 1800s form the nostalgic backgrounds for many of his paintings.
A "bijou" residence is tiny (it may also be "charming", "cosy" or "compact").
Doll's houses, some big enough for actors to take up residence in ("Tiny Alice," "School for Wives").
More important, more than a decade since the killings, tens of thousands of people from around the world have sought out the Jesuit residence's tiny garden to bear their own witness to the faith of eight people they consider martyrs who defended the poor during this country's civil war.
That first meeting 27 years ago was attended by half a dozen scientists and two translators in the tiny audience room of his residence in Dharamsala, India.
I did a lot of wacky things during that stage, but moving eight months after my husband died to take up residence in a tiny rental a few miles away tops the list.
There they took up residence in a tiny apartment on a slip of a street called Carrer de les Minyones, in the heart of Gothic Palma, in the shadow of the cathedral.
Two men in sharp suits take up residence at the tiny bar in the back of the room, murmuring in Spanish and drinking something amber-colored that suggests fortified wine.
