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Of the world's three major comics (Japanese manga, bande dessinée, and American comics), the predominance of black-and-white expression is a characteristic unique to Japanese manga. With its roots in Katsushika Hokusai's Hokusai manga, Japanese manga has evolved from ukiyoe, and certainly inherits the blood of ukiyoe in terms of line expression and the aesthetics of margins. Ukiyo" means the present world or the world in transition, and Ukiyo-e is a painting by an artist of the Edo period that depicts the state of the times using the techniques of the time.