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The Auteur of Anime | The New Yorker

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Margaret Talbot’s 2005 visit to the Ghibli Museum with Hayao Miyazaki, the beloved director of “Spirited Away” and “My Neighbor Totoro.”

Save this story Save this story The building that houses the Ghibli Museum would be unusual anywhere, but in greater Tokyo, where architectural exuberance usually takes an angular, modernist form—black glass cubes, busy geometries of neon—it is particularly so. From the outside, the museum resembles an oversized adobe house, with slightly melted edges; its exterior walls are painted in saltwater-taffy shades of pink, green, and yellow. Inside, the museum looks like a child’s fantasy of Old Europe submitted to a rigorous Arts and Crafts sensibility. The floors are dark polished wood; stained-gl

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