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Hokusai Manga: Contextualisation of Its Title and Genre
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Is devoted to Manga as the biggest and the bestknown work of Hokusai (北斎, 1760-1849). The paper discusses the phenomenon of Hokusai Manga and its place in the context of Japanese picture books. Was it a drawing manual or comic cartoons or perhaps a pictorial encyclopedia? What are the historical meanings and etymology of the word manga and its littleunderstood supraheading “Denshin Kaishu”?
Title: Hokusai Manga: Contextualisation of Its Title and Genre
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Is devoted to Manga as the biggest and the bestknown work of Hokusai (北斎, 1760-1849).
The paper discusses the phenomenon of Hokusai Manga and its place in the context of Japanese picture books.
Was it a drawing manual or comic cartoons or perhaps a pictorial encyclopedia? What are the historical meanings and etymology of the word manga and its littleunderstood supraheading “Denshin Kaishu”?.
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