i'm Ross Campbell, creator of the comics Wet Moon, Shadoweyes, The Abandoned, Water Baby, and Mountain Girl. i'm also currently the artist on Glory for Image Comics and i drew IDW's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Leonardo micro issue.

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5th February 2012

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blackblobyellowcone replied to your post: Don’t know if this helps but when studying Meiji Era i looked back at Tokugawa period (feudal Japan). They had books as they were writing novels at the time. Books and documents both existed. Everything was in script (Hiragana and Kanji…Katakana was not invented until Meiji Era). Note that women weren’t taught to read Kanji, so if you’re drawing an important document or what looks like a long book; to be historically accurate you may not want to draw a woman reading (bad as that sounds!)
well, a woman wrote Japan’s epic, The Tale of Genji, so it’s ok to show women reading long books (since Genji was written by and for women). Just FYI.

oh cool! i’m reading about that right now. :D