Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rakuten Kitazawa was the pen name of Yasuji Kitazawa, a Japanese mangaka and Nihonga artist. He drew many editorial cartoons and comic strips during the years from the late Meiji era through the early Showa era. He is considered by many historians to be the founding father of modern manga because his work was an inspiration to many younger mangaka and animators. He was the first professional cartoonist in Japan, and the first to use the term "manga" in its modern sense. Rakuten was born in 1876 in the Kita Adachi district of Omiya in Saitama Prefecture. He studied western-style painting under Ono Yukihiko and Nihonga under Inoue Shunzui. He joined the English-language magazine Box of Curios in 1895, and started drawing cartoons under Frank Arthur Nankivell, an Australian artist who later emigrated to America and became a popular cartoonist for Puck magazine.

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