{"id":6222,"date":"2016-06-23T10:17:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T10:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6222"},"modified":"2016-06-23T11:14:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T11:14:35","slug":"hokusai-x-manga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6222","title":{"rendered":"Hokusai x Manga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/playboy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6224\" src=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/playboy-244x300.png\" alt=\"playboy\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/playboy-244x300.png 244w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/playboy.png 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cover of Playboy Roasted \u00e0 la Edo<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mkg-hamburg.de\/en\/\">Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts<\/a> has a well designed\u00a0exhibit called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hokusaixmanga.mkg-hamburg.de\/\">Hokusai x Manga<\/a>\u00a0that looks at the history of comics from the first <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kiby%C5%8Dshi\">kiby\u014dshi<\/a>\u00a0to current manga and videogames. The exhibit draws on an extensive collection of woodblock books and prints from the Edo period. They mix a historical approach with themes like the depiction of demons (<a href=\"http:\/\/yokai.com\/\">Yokai<\/a>) in print and\u00a0the franchise <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yo-kai_Watch\">Yo-kai Watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the earliest comic picture books that they have is Ky\u014dden&#8217;s Playboy, Roasted \u00e0 la Edo (1785). Harvard has put up a <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.fas.harvard.edu\/~icgzmod\/playboy1.html\">Flash version<\/a> of this in English and Japanese. (<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.fas.harvard.edu\/~icgzmod\/playboy2.html\">Second book here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.fas.harvard.edu\/~icgzmod\/playboy3.html\">third here<\/a>.) They also have a copies of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hokusai_Manga\">Hokusai Manga<\/a> (or Hokusai&#8217;s Sketches) published starting in 1814 which was a sort of manual on how to draw with lots of examples. Note that &#8220;manga&#8221; at the time didn&#8217;t mean what it means now.<\/p>\n<p>There is an excellent catalogue with useful essays including one at the end on &#8220;Manga in Transition&#8221; by Jaqueline Berndt.<\/p>\n<p>Shulze, S., et al. (2016). <em>Hokusai X Manga: Japanese Pop Culture since 1680<\/em>. Munich, Hirmer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cover of Playboy Roasted \u00e0 la Edo The Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts has a well designed\u00a0exhibit called\u00a0Hokusai x Manga\u00a0that looks at the history of comics from the first kiby\u014dshi\u00a0to current manga and videogames. The exhibit draws on an extensive collection of woodblock books and prints from the Edo period. They mix a historical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6222\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hokusai x Manga<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4,5,51,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-arts","category-computer-games","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-japan","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6227,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions\/6227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}