Tokyo Puck

Tokyo Puck (Japanese: 東京パック, Hepburn: Tōkyō pakku) was a Japanese satirical comic magazine launched in 1905. It was based on the American Puck and featured multicolor illustrations that emphasized visual characteristics.

Front cover of Tokyo Puck magazine

Early on it was critical of the government and several issues were prohibited from being published,[1] but after the High Treason Incident of 1910, it became more conservative and focused more on the changes in daily life.[2][3]

The editor-in-chief was Kitazawa Rakuten, the first professional cartoonist in Japan and considered the founding father of modern manga. 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 1915.[3] It was the first publication of its kind in Japan to feature color illustrations.[4]

Woodblock print artist Senpan Maekawa worked as an illustrator for the magazine early in his career.[5]

See also

References
  1. Gravett, Paul. Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics. New York, NY: Collins Design, 2003.
  2. Hirohito, Miyamoto, and Jennifer Prough. "The Formation of an Impure Genre—On the Origins of ‘Manga.’" Review of Japanese Culture and Society, vol. 14, 2002, pp. 39–48. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/42800200. Accessed 10 Nov. 2020.
  3. Isao Shimizu, Manga Tanjō (Birth of Manga), ISBN 4-642-05475-8
  4. Schodt, Frederik L. Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1983
  5. Volk, Alicia. "Maekawa Senpan, Shitōchō 偲糖帖 (Remembered Sweets, 1945)". The World of the Japanese Illustrated Book: The Gerhard Pulverer Collection.
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