Ikuo Oishi

Born 1902, in Tokyo. Oishi possessed skills that earned him the reputation of the "Japanese Disney." He achieved acclaim with his masterpiece Ugoki-e Kori no Tatehiki (動絵狐狸達引, 1933). Unfortunately, Oishi died in 1944 during the war in the Pacific, but nurtured many artists of the next generation at the Photo Chemical Laboratory's Manga Division, and Toho.