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Gallery one: manga history
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  An
episode from Yutaka Asô's Nonki no Tôsan ["Easygoing
Daddy"], from the mid 1920's (?).
In Frederik Schodt, Manga! Manga! the world of Japanese comics
(New York and Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983) 47.
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  A
frame from Suihô Tagawa's Norakuro ["Black Stray"].
The very popular Norakuro ran in the youth magazine Shônen
Clubfrom 1931 to 1941.
Frederik Schodt, Manga! Manga! 52.
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 Artist
Suihô Tagawa surrounded by Norakuro merchandise (1937).
Frederik Schodt, Manga! Manga! 53.
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 A
newly electrified "picture-card show" (kamishibai) from
Shizuoka City, 1952. This photograph made it into the Mainichi
shinbun newspaper with the caption, " A great revolution
in kamishibai: electric lights and loudspeakers." Nevertheless,
the kamishibai could not withstand the competition from a greater
revolution-- the television. Kamishibai were an important forerunner
for manga. (See also Kimura Ihee's photograph of children watching
a kamishibai in the 1930's, in film
and photography gallery 2).
From Andrew Gorden, ed., Postwar Japan as History (Berkeley:
U of Califorina P, 1993) 223.
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 A
"rental bookstore" (kashihonya) in Nagasaki City, 1953.
Due to the strained economic circumstances in of the early postwar,
many early manga were circulated through such rental bookstores.
Although most manga today are sold rather than rented, the practice
of reading in the store (tachiyomi), as these children are doing,
is still widespread.
From Postwar Japan as History 222.
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 Young
people flip through an outdoor rack of manga magazines, c. 1980.
Frederik Schodt, Manga! Manga! 147.
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 A
vendor in the Ikebukuro train station with stacks of manga to
be sold to commuters.
Frederik Schodt, Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
(Berkeley, CA: 1996) 71.
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 An
outdoor vending machine mainly selling erotic manga.
Frederik Schodt, Manga! Manga! 146.
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 Graph
of manga sales as a percentage of all books and magazines in Japan,
1995.
Frederik Schodt, Dreamland Japan 20.
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 Cover
of Ikeda Riyoko's Rose of Versailles, a pioneering girls'
manga which began serialization in 1972.
Frederik Schodt, Manga! Manga 8.
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  Page
outlay for Ikeda Riyoko's Rose of Versailes.
Frederik Schodt, Manga! Manga 220-221.
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 Cover
of Shûkan shônen janpu ("Weekly Boys Jump")
May 29, 1995. Published weekly, and usually running over 400 pages,
Shônen jampu has a circulation of 5-6 million, the largest
in Japan (compare Time magazine's circulation of roughly
4 million).
Frederik Schodt, Dreamland Japan 73.
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 Cover
of June magazine, November 1994. June features erotic
manga marketed primarily at women.
Frederik Schodt, Dreamland Japan 79.
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