Posted on July 25, 2010. Filed under: books, comics, Consuming, films, history, Japan, manga | Tags: Frank A. Nankivell, Fukujiro Yokoi, Isao Shimizu, Jiji Shinpo, Juzo Unno, Kyoto International Manga Museum, Legion d'Honneur, Leiji Matsumoto, Osamu Tezuka, Oten Shimokawa, Rakuten Kitazawa, Ryuichi Yokoyama, Sadakazu Muto, Shigeru Komatsuzaki, Shigeru Sugiura, Shogo Hirata, Soji Yamakawa, Takeo Nagamatsu, Tarzan, Tetsuo Ogawa, Yuzo Kawashima |
Fukujiro Yokoi is a seminal figure in wartime and postwar comics in Japan, but despite two recent Japanese books, there’s very little information about him and his work in European languages.
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Posted on December 4, 2009. Filed under: appearances, events, kamishibai | Tags: Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, Barbican, kamishibai, Kyoto International Manga Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Yassan |
If you’re in Washington DC this weekend, go and see one of the few remaining licensed kamishibai performers at the Smithsonian Institution’s Osamu Tezuka festival in the Freer and Sackler Galleries. Yassan usually works at the Kyoto International Manga Museum, where his mastery of this unique street art form entertains young and old alike. He [...]
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Posted on July 17, 2009. Filed under: anime, Japan, manga, travel | Tags: anime, Astro Boy, Barbican Cinema, Japan, Kyoto, Kyoto International Manga Museum, MW, Osamu Tezuka, Philip Brophy, Takarazuka, Tezuka Osamu Manga Museum |
Kyoto’s Tezuka Osamu World is right by Japan’s most astonishing railway station, and despite its tiny size it has its own special attractions.
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Posted on June 20, 2009. Filed under: anime, Japan, kamishibai, manga | Tags: Alex Kerr, anime, Comiket, Contemporary Manga Library, Cool Japan, Gigantor, Jeffrey A. Dym, kamishibai, Kyoto International Manga Museum, library, manga, Manga Cafe, museum, National Center for Media Arts, Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize, Prange, Takeshi Tanikawa, Taro Aso, Tetsujin 28, Village People, Yoshihiro Yonezawa |
Japan’s attitude to preserving its mass culture is changing, but not everybody thinks that’s it’s a good thing. With much of kamishibai’s historic art already destroyed, it seems some politicians are happy for manga to go the same way. But Japanese and foreign scholars think comics aren’t really so inconsequential, and are working to preserve and study them.
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