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Tobae Manga Comic Sketch
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Tobae Manga Comic Sketch

Artist Keihitsu Tobaguruma (Japanese)
Date1720
MediumBound Book
Dimensions9 5/8 x 7 in. (24.4 x 17.8 cm)
ClassificationsBooks
Credit LineGift of William Knight Zewadski
Object number2013.64.202
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DescriptionIn the style of Toba, a 12th century monk who made comic sketches/caricatures hence the name "Tobaguruma"
"Excellent examples of "mad pictures" that were eventually domesticated into the form of manga comics."
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Chinese, Liangzhu culture
Neolithic period or later
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William Hogarth
1758
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China
19th century
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Albert James Webb
1936-1943
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Frank Hamilton Taylor
1886
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Kenneth A. Kerslake
1966
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Paul Wunderlich
undated
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Jerome Myers
undated
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Shotei Watanabe (aka Seitei Watanabe)
1897