Charles Wirgman
Charles Wirgman (August 31st, 1832 - February 8th, 1891) was an English caricaturist and illustrator.
Wirgman arrived at Japan in 1861 as correspondent of the " Illustrated London News ". It resided at Yokohama until its death. It published the first magazine in Japan, the " Japan Punch " , a monthly magazine which lived of 1862 in spring 1887. This humorous magazine, even satirical, was illustrated caricatures and drawings of Wirgman.
Wirgman joined to the famous photographer Felice Beato of 1864 to 1867. Wirgman produced illustrations inspired of the photographs of Beato and conversely Beato photographed works of Wirgman.
Wirgman also had an activity of teacher of the Western techniques of drawing and painting to a great number of Japanese artists, of which in particular the creator of prints " Ukiyo-e " Kobayashi Korechika.
It accompanied the diplomat Sir Ernest Satow in a certain number of voyages inside Japan as the work of Satow " mentions it; Diplomat in Japan ".
It is in the beginning, with the French artist Georges Bigot with the comparable course, of the social and political caricature to Japan and fact part, like Bigot, of the founding fathers of the modern Mangas.
The tomb of Wirgman is with the international cemetery of Yokohama.
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