{"id":4241,"date":"2001-11-09T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-09T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2001\/11\/09\/one-of-manga-art-form-creators-dies\/"},"modified":"2001-11-09T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2001-11-09T14:41:00","slug":"one-of-manga-art-form-creators-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/one-of-manga-art-form-creators-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Manga Art Form Creators Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a post on the Rec.Arts.Anime.Misc usenet group, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.city.kochi.kochi.jp\/info\/english\/fuku\/type-b\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ryuichi Yokoyama<\/a>, a significant early manga artist, passed away on November 8th at the age of 92. As the first &#8220;manga-ka&#8221; to be recognized by the Japanese government as a serious artist, Yokoyama-sensei was best known for his 4-panel wartime manga &#8220;Fuku-chan&#8221; (1938-1971) which spanned over 5534 strips in the Mainichi Shinbun and inspired many other manga-ka including Osamu Tezuka.<\/p>\n<p>Article courtesy of <a href=\"mailto:sgreen@skuldo.com\">Scott Green<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a post on the Rec.Arts.Anime.Misc usenet group, Ryuichi Yokoyama, a significant early manga artist, passed away on November 8th at the age of 92. As the first &#8220;manga-ka&#8221; to be recognized by the Japanese government as a serious artist, Yokoyama-sensei was best known for his 4-panel wartime manga &#8220;Fuku-chan&#8221; (1938-1971) which spanned over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}