“Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.”
Frederik L. Schodt“Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.”
Frederik L. Schodt, Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga“Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.”
Frederik L. Schodt, Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe: How an American Acrobat Introduced Circus to Japan--and Japan to the West