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Early Roots
of Manga
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Origins dating back to scrolls from the
12th and 13th centuries
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The word Manga first used in late 18th
century
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Other inspirations include Kamishibai, a
form of street theatre using pictures in
light boxes to tell a story
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Kibyoshi – picture books from the late
18th century may be the world’s first real
comic books.
漫画
The kanji for “Manga”
Chōjū-giga (12th century), traditionally attributed to a monk-artist Kakuyū (Toba Sōjo)
One of the first examples of sequential art from Japan.
Early
Modern Manga
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Late 1800s-World War II
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Western-style satirical cartoons in late 19th century became
popular with newspaper comics being produced in the 1890s.
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1900 – Jiji Manga in the Jiji Shinpo newspaper becomes the first
modern use of the word manga.
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1902, Rakuten Kitazawa began the first modern Japanese comic
strip
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By the 1930s, comic strips were serialized in large-circulation
monthly girls' and boys' magazine and collected into hardback
volumes.
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The roots of the wide-eyed look commonly associated with
manga dates back to shōjo magazine illustrations during the late
19th to early 20th centuries, influenced by the style of dolls at the
time.
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From the rise of Japanese imperialism to World War II, manga
was largely used as a propaganda tool.
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