Editing Anime (section)

=== Precursors ===
{{Lang|ja-latn|[[Emakimono]]}} and [[shadow play]]s (''kage-e'') are considered precursors of Japanese animation.<ref name=":1">{{cite book|last=Novielli |first=Maria Roberta |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1020690005 |title=Floating worlds: a short history of Japanese animation |date=2018 |isbn=978-1-351-33482-2 |location=Boca Raton |oclc=1020690005}}</ref> {{Lang|ja-latn|Emakimono}} was common in the eleventh century. Traveling storytellers narrated legends and anecdotes while the {{lang|ja-latn|emakimono}} was unrolled from the right to left in chronological order, as a moving panorama.<ref name=":1" /> ''Kage-e'' was popular during the Edo period and originated from the shadow plays of China.<ref name=":1" /> [[Magic lantern]]s from the Netherlands were also popular in the eighteenth century.<ref name=":1" /> The paper play called ''[[kamishibai]]'' surged in the twelfth century and remained popular in the street theater until the 1930s.<ref name=":1" /> Puppets of the [[Bunraku]] theater and ''[[ukiyo-e]]'' prints are considered ancestors of characters of most Japanese animation.<ref name=":1" /> Finally, manga were a heavy inspiration for anime. Cartoonists [[Kitazawa Rakuten|Kitzawa Rakuten]] and [[Okamoto Ippei]] used film elements in their strips.<ref name=":1" />