Katsuji Matsumoto
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Katsuji Matsumoto was a Japanese illustrator and shōjo manga artist. Matsumoto's 16-page The Mysterious Clover is recognized as a pioneering work in the field of manga, but he is best known for his sh
Katsuji Matsumoto in an undated photograph
A panel from Poku-chan and the Artist circa 1931
A page from Matsumoto's adaptation of "The Doll's House" circa 1955, showing the cheerful optimism of Matsumoto's characters.
Jun'ichi Nakahara
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Jun'ichi Nakahara was a Japanese graphic artist and fashion designer born in Higashikagawa. He was also a French doll maker. He became famous as an illustrator in the 1920s when his work appeared in t
Katsuji Matsumoto
…popular illustrators of the day were better suited to the niches in which Matsumoto was not in his element. The multi-talented and enormously popular Jun'ichi Nakahara (中原淳一) drew girls who were intelligent and stylish, but humor was not his forte. In the genre of sentimental melodrama, according to Akiko Horiguchi…
Nakahara c. 1949