You probably missed my last post on this..
https://partiko.app/hockney/manga-at-the-british-museum
A lot of this post refers to things explained in the previous post.
This is the sequel. I had a guided tour from one of the curators - an American lady who spoke Japanese (I think fluently, but what do I know?).
She read us the Death of Eel Dog story in Japanese, so we could hear the different laughs!
I learned that manga drawings are shrunk to 81% when they are printed. The same amount by which original drawings were reduced when turned into woodblock prints in the Edo period!
Anyway...
Two interpretations of Alice in Wonderland
This by Otomo Katsuhiro, who did Akira. So are these..
...inspired in part by this...
From the 19th century, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
This theatre curtain is unlikely to ever leave it's home again as it is too fragile to travel...
There was a "bookshop" where you could browse and download material in many languages:
A giant head...
...and more jazz:
I've got another visit on Monday for a lecture, but two posts is enough.
Next we'll go from manga to Munch.
