Japanese Studies Librarian &Today’s Wall Street Journal has a front page article about Japanese anime tourists visiting the Washinomiya Shrine in Washimiya, Saitama Prefecture, because of its association with Lucky Star (らき★すた) by Yoshimizu Kagami (美水 かがみ). This caught my attention because Saitama is Ohio’s sister state in Japan!
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BT No. 876 is a special issue on “Is Manga Art?” (more…)
Has anyone else been following the US Navy’s release of a manga entitled “Manga CVN 73” and commissioned from Japanese cartoonists?
Here’s a news report about it–
Cartoon is Navy’s envoy to anxious Japanese By Philip Ewing
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/06/navy_comicbook_061408w/
English and Japanese versions are available at:
http://www.cnfj.navy.mil/Manga.html
Last month Toshinori Egami (江上敏哲), a rare book librarian at Kyoto University Library who has been visiting and cataloging rare books at Harvard-Yenching Library for the past year, came to Ohio State to see the manga collection in the Cartoon Research Library. (more…)
The last time I wrote about Shiriagari Kotobuki there was a nice link from the Completely Futile blog (Thanks so much!!!). That kind of positive feedback is really wonderful!
In the latest November ‘07 issue of Bijutsu Techo Kotobuki discusses the Choju Jinbutsu Giga, the 12th century scroll of frolicking animals that is often considered to be Japan’s first manga, with art historian Yamashita Yuji. They discuss the scroll from their respective points of view. The issue coincided with an exhibit of all four scrolls at the Suntory Museum.
73 titles now come up in a Worldcat.org search on Shiriagari Kotobuki — including some new ones that I should order for Ohio State’s collection!
The Kyoto International Manga Museum opened on November 25! Its web site is a major new resource about manga:
http://www.kyotomm.com/
The Columbus Anime Convention — “Anime Punch” will be next weekend! (more…)
The last reading in the freshman seminar was Inu Yasha by Takahashi Rumiko. We had a good discussion about what makes it such a popular manga. Also, we reflected on what we’d all learned over the past ten weeks. The seminar was a great success, thanks to a wonderful group of students. We had a lot of lively discussions and everyone participated actively.
For the last class I brought the manga collection’s treasure, an original page from a story manga by Tezuka Osamu. It was exhibited during the Astro Boy Birthday (April 7, 2003) celebration and exhibit.
Also, I brought some other resources related to the class discussions that day — (more…)
My freshman seminar ended last week. One of the mangaka that we read is Ishinomori Shotaro. I just put in an order for the 500 volume Ishinomori daizenshu (complete works) that has just started coming out. It will be published at the rate of about 40 volumes every three months during 2006-2008.
Here are some resources in the manga collection related to Ishinomori Shotaro — (more…)
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