Tag: Taisho
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1924-1926: KŌUCHI & OFUJI
Only one of the three pillars of the original 1917 Japanese animation boom was still in the industry by 1924. But his apprentice would change Japanese animation permanently.
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1924-1926: YAMAMOTO SANAE
As a young adult, Yamamoto’s family wanted him to return to their kimono-selling business. Instead, he kept running away to art school.
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1924-26: KIMURA HAKUSAN
Following the wrecking of the entire Japanese animation industry in the Great Kanto Earthquake, how did Japanese animation come back, and who was responsible?
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AMERICAN ANIMATION AND A REGENCY (1919-1926)
It is impossible to discuss animation in the inter-war period without mentioning American cartoons. And let’s be honest; that means the Mouse.
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THE ANIMATION BUBBLE (“1907”-1923)
There were three dominant Japanese film studios at the start of 1917. There were exactly zero frames of animation. Who would be the first creators, and what would be the First Anime, to emerge?