Kitazawa Rakuten

Placere: Tokyo

Født: 1876

død: 1955

Biografi:

Kitazawa Rakuten was a Japanese manga artist and nihonga artist. He drew many editorial cartoons and comic strips during the years from the late Meiji era through the early Shōwa era. He is considered by many historians to be the founding father of modern manga because his work was an inspiration to many younger manga artists and animators. He was the first professional cartoonist in Japan, and the first to use the term 'manga' in its modern sense.