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Manga's roots and influence celebrated in Paris exhibition
The exhibition links manga to traditional Japanese art and cultural exchange, featuring ancient artefacts alongside iconic titles like Dragon Ball and One Piece, organisers said.
- An Art of its Own! opened Wednesday at the Guimet Museum in western Paris, tracing manga's history back to traditional Japanese art forms and pairing ancient artefacts with comics.
- Organisers explain the term `manga` derives from Japanese `man` and link its development to kamishibai and newspaper caricature adaptations influenced by Japan's late 19th-century Western contact.
- Visitors encounter Noh masks, kamishimos and katanas next to original manga drawings, while a gallery highlights stylistic links between Hokusai's 'Great Wave off Kanagawa' and comic-book aesthetics, organisers say.
- The exhibition shows manga's influence in games, animation, and fashion, with outfits from Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Julien David, and works like `Astro Boy`, `Naruto`, and `Akira` cited as influential,
- Exhibition co-curator Didier Pasamonik framed the show as `This is not a comic book exhibition like the others: it's an exhibition that places comic books in parallel with the Guimet's collection`, highlighting a real 'dragonball' statue reportedly offered by a Japanese shogun to Napoleon III.
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