was a Japanese graphic artist and fashion designer born in
Higashikagawa, Kagawa
is a city located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 28,627 in 13689 households and a population density of and a population density of 970 persons per km². The total area of the city is .
Geography
Higashi ...
Prefecture. He became famous as an illustrator in the 1920s when his work appeared in the magazine ''Shojo No Tomo''.
According to the scholar Nozomi Masuda, Nakahara "greatly developed the eyes of
shojo manga
Shojo may refer to:
* , the Japanese word for "young girl", often romanized as (without a macron) or (with a letter u in the word)
* ( or ), a sea spirit with red hair and a fondness for alcohol in Japanese mythology
* ( or ), a less common J ...
characters".
See also
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Shōjo manga
is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent females and young adult women. It is, along with manga (targeting adolescent boys), manga (targeting young adult and adult men), and manga (targeting adul ...
*
Yumeji Takehisa
*
Katsuji Matsumoto
was a Japanese illustrator and shōjo manga artist. Matsumoto's 16-page ''The Mysterious Clover'' (1934) is recognized as a pioneering work in the field of manga, but he is best known for his shōjo manga ''Kurukuru Kurumi-chan'', serialized fr ...
References
External links
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1913 births
1983 deaths
Japanese graphic designers
Artists from Kagawa Prefecture
20th-century Japanese artists
Japanese fashion designers