This week: manga is today one of the most ubiquitous forms of entertainment in Japan. But the idea of comics as we might understand them has a much longer history. So how did we get from there to here–what, in other words, is the origin of Japanese manga/ We’ll look today at the earliest known examples as we try to understand the origins of manga as a form.
Sources
Marks, Andreas. Japan’s Manga Revolution: From Painted Scrolls to Comic Books, 1680-1920
Koyama-Richard, Brigitte, ed. One Thousand Years of Manga.
Rousmaniere, Nicole Coolidge and Matsuba Ryoko, eds. Manga: The Citi Exhibition at the British Museum
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