Manga Open House

(12th century animation)

Written by Isao Takahata, film director and co-founder (with Hayao Miyazaki) of Studio Ghibli. Takahata drew inspiration from the 12th century reproduction scrolls displayed to the left.

One of 250-300 original copies by 18 members of the Tokyo Manga Association. In 1921 some of Japan’s most famous artists took a trip on the Eastern Highway and made sketches for these scrolls, each over 30 feet long and 10 inches high, in order to promote “manga.”

v.5 no.8 - the "Blundering Number" issue
Tokyo Puck, named after the American humor magazine Puck, was a full-color satirical magazine published from 1871 to 1918.

A supplement to the Jan. 1926 issue (v. 21 no. 1) of Fujin Sekai (The World of Women), a monthly women’s magazine.

Supplement to the Jan 2, 1925 issue of Hōchi Shinbun (Hochi Newspaper.) Please contact the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum to access.

A translated version is available in OSUL:
The Four Immigrants Manga : a Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 / Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama ; translated, with an introduction and notes, by Frederik L. Schodt (Berkeley : Stone Bridge Press, 1999).

Considered one of the leaders of Japan’s avant-garde movements in pre-war Japan, Yanase was a Western-style painter and cartoonist. In 1925 he became the cartoonist for the Proletarian Times (Musansha Shimbun), the legal newspaper of the then-illegal Japan Communist Party.

A comic strip featured from 1933 to 1934 in the evening newspaper Asahi Shimbun.

v.2, v.4, v.6 ( 文福茶釜,怪人ヱミール, ネオンの怪) - Akahon (red book) is a genre of popular woodblock-print illustrated literature known as Kusazōshi (picture book) and often created for children. The volumes shown here were all created by Shichima Sakai (1905-1969), the co-creator of Shin takarajima (New Treasure Island) along with Tezuka Osamu. Please contact the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum to access.

Yomiuri Sunday Comics - Popular contributors include: Maekawa, Senpan (1888-1960),Yanase, Masamu (1900-1945),Tanaka, Hisara (1891-1974),Togo, Seiji (1897-1978.) Please contact the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum to access.

Covers:
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Winston Churchill
• Gandhi

Omoitsuki Fujin shares ideas and advice for parenting and accomplishing household tasks. This popular manga was made into a film directed by Torajirō Saitō in 1939.

Please contact the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum to access.

This is a “kamishibai” picture card, used in a traditional Japanese style of storytelling that was once popular as street entertainment. Many famous manga artists started out drawing “kamishibai” in the 1940s and 50s.