Sublime

Toshiyuki Kurosu in gakuran school uniform (left) and first suit jacket (right). (Courtesy of Toshiyuki Kurosu)

Hokusai Manga (1814),

I did not try to make “animation” as we usually think of it, but a manga, or a cartoon film.

The manga format is so readily comprehended that it has become Japanese culture’s common denominator. That is the peril faced by Japanese culture.

Yasuhiko Kobayashi and Heibon Punch editor Jirō Ishikawa