Sat June 15, 2013
Introducing Japan to the West via Circus
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at San Francisco Public Library: Koret Auditorium
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Frederik L. Schodt, winner of Japan's Order of the Rising Sun for his work popularizing manga and anime, will present the story of an American acrobat who gives many in the West their first glimpse of Japan when he takes his "Imperial Japanese Troupe" of acrobats and jugglers on a tour of North America and Europe in 1867. He argues that such early popular entertainments helped stir a curiosity about all things Japanese that eventually led to the boom in manga and anime.
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Frederik L. Schodt, winner of Japan's Order of the Rising Sun for his work popularizing manga and anime, will present the story of an American acrobat who gives many in the West their first glimpse of Japan when he takes his "Imperial Japanese Troupe" of acrobats and jugglers on a tour of North America and Europe in 1867. He argues that such early popular entertainments helped stir a curiosity about all things Japanese that eventually led to the boom in manga and anime.
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San Francisco Public Library: Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
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