Makoto Wada ( 和田誠 , b. 1936) is best known as an illustrator whose work has adorned the book covers and pages of writers as diverse as...

In his long and varied career in animation, Shin’ichi Suzuki has worked behind the scenes on many anime classics. He was a key animato...

The Gourd Bottle ( ひょうたん , 1976) is an independent animated short by Shin’ichi Suzuki.  Suzuki belongs to the first generation of p...

Japanese Auteur Animation at RICA Wissembourg, Part 2: The Invention of the Animation Auteur « L'animation japonaise d'auteur...

 “ Ame ni mo makezu ” (Be not Defeated by the Rain) is one of the most famous poems in the Japanese language.  Written by beloved aut...

Hachioji Yume Art Museum Special Exhibition: The World of Kato Kunio 八王子市夢美術館特別展　加藤久仁生展 Hachioji Yume Art Museum 10 February – 2...

I have recently begun collecting the 3D “Living Storybooks” designed and manufactured by Shiba Productions in the 1960s.  They were dis...

Shigeru Tamura ’s animated short URSA minor BLUE (銀河の魚/Ginga no Sakana, 1993) begins with a simple scene that could be right out of an Er...

A retrospective of the career of Japanese alternative animation pioneer Taku Furukawa has opened this week at the Kichijoji Art Museum in...