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 November 20, 2009. Filed under: anime, appearances, events, films, kamishibai, manga | Tags: Ada Palmer, Frederik L. Schodt, James Smithson, kamishibai, Kyoto International Manga Musueum, Natsu Onoda Power, Smithsonian Institution, The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, Yassan, Yoshihiro Shimizu, Yuushi Yasuno |
The opening weekend of the Smithsonian Institution’s Tezuka festival – four authors, an audience and the work of a genius.
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Posted on November 11, 2009. Filed under: anime, appearances, events, films, kamishibai, manga | Tags: Ada Palmer, anime, Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, Frederik L. Schodt, kamishibai, Natsu Onoda Power, Smithsonian Institution, TezukaInEnglish, Yassan |
Opening this weekend, the Festival at the Sackler and Freer Galleries Cinema honours Osamu Tezuka with screenings of his films, a special show by Kyoto’s longest-established working kamishibai performer Yassan, and talks by several prominent Tezuka scholars. Have a look at the website. Even if you can’t be there, there are essays by Frederik L. Schodt, [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2009. Filed under: writing | Tags: Abrams ComicArts, anime, Eric P. Nash, Frederik L. Schodt, kamishibai, manga, writing, Yassan, Yasuno Yuushi |
Sometimes there’s a book you really want to write – and someone else has the same idea! It happened to me with kamishibai, a Japanese street performance art with a major influence on the modern manga industry.
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