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Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Asaina Saburō Yoshihide wrestles with two crocodiles at Kotsubo beach, Kamakura (detail of left sheet), 1849. Colour woodblock, ōban triptych, 36.3 x 25.6 (R), 35.4 x 25.4 (C), 35.7 x 25.2 cm (L). American Friends of the British Museum (The Arthur R. Miller Collection) 19303. Photo © Trustees of the British Museum, London
To celebrate Kuniyoshi’s influence on a generation of manga artists the Royal Academy of Arts and Laurence King are giving you the chance to win one of three copies of Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics.
Japan's output of manga is massive, accounting for 40 per cent of everything published in the country annually. There has also been a boom in sales outside Japan, with the manga aesthetic spreading from comics into all areas of Western youth culture through film, computer games, advertising and design. This book presents an accessible, entertaining and highly illustrated introduction to the development and diversity of Japanese comics from 1945 to the present. The chapters explore topics such as: the career of Osamu Tezuka, creator of Astro Boy and originator of manga strip stories; girls' and women's comics; and the darker, more violent gekiga manga, featuring samurais and apocalyptic science fiction.
Author Paul Gravett is a freelance journalist, curator, lecturer and broadcaster. He is giving an evening lecture at the Royal Academy on 29 May, entitled ‘Mangaisme’ - the New Japonisme? Comics as Cultural Heritage and Global Phenomenon.
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