Text in English; some manga panels in German.

This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Hokusai x Manga: Japanese pop culture since 1680,' 10 June - 11 September 2016, Museum f©ơr Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.

Includes bibliographical references (page 238).

Preface / Sabine Schulze -- Fiction and reality / Nora von Achenbach -- Looking for thrill : y¿�kai -- Star cult and spectacle -- Portraits -- iki : fashion models -- emotions : longing and melancholy -- Lifestyle -- Love and lust : shunga -- Old heroes for new times -- The Fuji cult -- Edo : pictures of the capital -- Travel routes -- The birth of the comic book -- The boom in painting manuals and the wish to participate -- From draft to paint -- Manga-modernism : a foray through Japan's contemporary visual worlds / Simon Klingler -- Drawn history : Japan's zero hour -- Jir¿� Taniguchi : urban contemplation -- The avant-garde of the girl's manga -- A bird's-eye view -- Anime : Animated film made in Japan -- Ukiyo-e heroes -- Manga in transition : subtly receding from 'popular culture' / Jaqueline Berndt.

Early Japanese popular culture, in the form of the coloured woodcuts of artists like Hokusai and Kuniyoshi, achieved world fame after Japan's opening. The pop culture of today, from manga to anime, has also conquered the globe. Now the sheets and books of woodcuts by the most famous renowned ukiyo-e artists confront the visual mass media in the comics and cartoons of modern Japan. The high-quality Japanese woodcuts and graphic novels from the 17th to the 19th centuries are products of an urban popular culture in pre-modern Japan, in which clothing, stage stars, myths, monsters, sexuality and commerce were the governing factors. The publication shows the enchanting imagery of both historical and contemporary pop culture in Japan, which today focuses on manga and anime. Short texts spotlight the art of the woodcut in the Edo period, such as the famous shunga sheets, together with selected excerpts from manga, including those by Jiro Taniguchi and Inio Asano as well as the current developments in the manga phenomenon in the Japan of the 21st century. Exhibition: Museum f©ơr Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany (10.06.-11.09.2016).

"Following the opening of Japan, its early popular culture with colour woodcuts by the likes of Hokusai and Kuniyoshi has acheived worldwide fame. And with manga and anime, Japan's contemporary pop culture has also conquered the world. Woodcuts and woodblock printed books by famous ukiyo-e artists meet up with mass media comics and animated films from modern Japan"-- Page 4 of cover.