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Ancient Manga Scroll On Display In New York City

Postby ashfire » Sat Nov 19, 2011 5:33 pm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be displaying what is considered thousand year old manga scroll and 90 other items like folding screens and stage clothing which depict animals with words acting like humans like a manga or anime. These items have never been shown in Japan.
The exhibit runs until May.
The info comes from the NHK English news link.
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Postby goldenspines » Sat Nov 19, 2011 6:23 pm

To bring responses to your thread, links are very helpful things to aid news stories. I believe this is what you're talking about: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20111120_07.html
And here's what the Met says about it: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2011/storytelling-in-japanese-art

Looks pretty interesting. Too bad I don't live near the Met, so I can't see it in person. :<
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Postby Gigavine » Sat Nov 19, 2011 9:53 pm

What a great piece of history! I and probably a good bit of the users of this site would love to see a picture of this.
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Postby KeybladeWarrior » Sat Nov 19, 2011 11:19 pm

This is very interesting. I didn't think manga could go back that far.
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Postby Lynna » Sun Nov 20, 2011 8:39 am

This sounds really cool! When I went to one museum I was able to see really old illustrations for the Tale of Genji (I think, anyways)
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