was a Japanese author, journalist and

media historian Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media Studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly ...

born in the

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. His

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was Miyatake Kameshiro (宮武龜四郎). The 28 February 1889 issue of , published by Miyatake, printed a cartoon by

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which parodies an earlier triptych of his own of

Emperor Meiji , also called or , was the 122nd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession. Reigning from 13 February 1867 to his death, he was the first monarch of the Empire of Japan and presided over the Meiji era. He was the figur ...

receiving the

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of 1889, called . The parody replaces the Emperor with a skeleton and is captioned: . The skeleton was a play on words of the name of magazine's publisher Miyatake, whose given name is a homophone of the Japanese word ' ("skeleton").

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* * 1867 births 1955 deaths Japanese writers Media historians {{Japan-writer-stub