Until November 15 at the Spanish Center of Havana will be open the mega exhibition “Japan: Kingdom of Characters”.
Organized by the Japan Foundation and the Japanese embassy in Cuba, the expo’s main purpose is to bring visitors to the context and history of manga and anime.
Among the stars of the show are Hello Kitty, Ultraman and Pikachu.
The display is inserted into the celebrations for the four hundred years of friendship between Cuba and Japan, which somehow started in 1614 when the Japanese samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga came to our country with the purpose of initiating ties from the commercial point of view with the new World.
Earlier in the gallery Rubén Martínez Villena the Japanese illustrator Seiichi Hayashi proposed to the public the exhibition “Bellas Japonesas “, a conglomeration of manga magazine covers and anime screenings of his own.
The origins of Japanese manga date back to 1868 when immigrants arrived in Japan from the West.
More specifically, its birth took place when the Japanese graphic art (emerged from the eleventh century) and Western cartoons were combined. Among its initiators is Osamu Tezuka.
