11/2/2023 0 Comments Font used in printing mangaTezuka Osamu (1928-1989), Atomu Taishi (Atom the Ambassador) © Tezuka Productions Tezuka’s most famous character, internationally, is Astro Boy, Tetsuwan Atomu. The artists and their subjects and characters are superstars, talked about in temple schools, samurai guard houses and homes throughout Japan. Almost anyone can afford to buy something. They’re published by companies including Izumiya, Tsutaya, Tsuruya, Nishimuraya. The shelves are piled high with colour woodblock prints of actors and courtesans by Utagawa Toyokuni, Kitagawa Utamaro, and illustrated books by Katsushika Hokusai, Santō Kyōden. Walk into a book and print shop in Edo (the old name for Tokyo). Now let’s time-slip back two hundred and twenty years (like in a manga such as Olympia Kyklos by Yamazaki Mari, which slips between the Tokyo Olympics of 1964 and ancient Greece), to 1799. The artists and their characters are superstars, talked about in playgrounds, offices and homes throughout Japan. They’re published by Kōdansha, Shūeisha, Shōgakukan, Hakusensha, and many other firms. Walk into a bookshop in Tokyo today and the shelves are packed to bursting with manga books by Tezuka Osamu, Hagio Moto, Inoue Takehiko, Yamazaki Mari, et al.
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