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Elsewhere in Tokyo, the suburban Ryohoji temple attracted hundreds of people for last month's autumn festival by drawing on the power of manga comics and the quirky youth cult of Cosplay, or costume-play.
Girls sporting frilly maid uniforms and sets of fluffy cat-ears -- the latest in comic-inspired costuming and usually a more common sight in Tokyo's geeky manga cafes -- greeted visitors to the 16th century temple.
Benzaiten, the goddess of knowledge, music and the arts, was depicted as a doe-eyed cartoon character on a sign at the temple, which also offered short cellphone video downloads of chief monk Shoko Nakazato chanting prayers.
Paul Gravett | Article Detail
"Artists are constantly developing a visual-verbal vocabulary to express sound effects or onomatopoeia, and symbols and other graphic devices to convey a wide variety of motions, emotions and other narrative elements."
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Artists are constantly developing a visual-verbal vocabulary to express sound effects or onomatopoeia, and symbols and other graphic devices to convey a wide variety of motions, emotions and other narrative elements.
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