was a Japanese

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comic magazine launched in 1905. It was based on the American '' Puck'' and featured multicolor illustrations that emphasized visual characteristics. It was the first publication of its kind in Japan to feature color illustrations. The magazine existed until 1923 with an interruption between 1912 and 1919.

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''Tokyo Puck'' first published in 1905. Early on it was critical of the government and several issues were prohibited from being published, but after the

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of 1910, it became more conservative and focused more on the changes in daily life.Isao Shimizu. ''Manga Tanjō'' (Birth of Manga), The editor-in-chief was

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, the first professional cartoonist in Japan and considered the founding father of modern

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. The magazine was translated into English and Chinese and sold in not only Japan but also in the Korean peninsula, Mainland China, and Taiwan. Kitazawa Rakuten worked for the magazine until 1912 when it was temporarily folded. It was restarted in 1919, but permanently closed down in 1923. Woodblock print artist

Senpan Maekawa was a Japanese woodblock printer associated with the sosaku hanga "creative prints" movement. Early life Born in Kyoto, his given name was Ishida Shigezaburō but from 1905 he went by Maekawa Senpan. He studied at the Kansai Fine Art Academ ...

worked as an illustrator for the magazine early in his career.

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