About Miyatake Gaikotsu
Lived 1867 – 1955 (aged 88). Miyatake Gaikotsu was a Japanese media historian, journalist and historian.
was a Japanese author, journalist and media historian born in the Kagawa Prefecture. His given name was Miyatake Kameshiro (宮武 龜四郎).
The 28 February 1889 issue of , published by Miyatake, printed a cartoon by Adachi Ginkō which parodies an earlier triptych of his own of Emperor Meiji receiving the Meiji Constitution of 1889, called . The parody replaces the Emperor with a skeleton and is captioned: . The skeleton was a play on words of the name of magazine's publisher Miyatake, whose given name is a homophone of the Japanese word ("skeleton").
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Who was Miyatake Gaikotsu?
Japanese writer (1867-1955)
When was Miyatake Gaikotsu born?
Miyatake Gaikotsu was born on 18 January 1867 in Sanuki Province.
When did Miyatake Gaikotsu die?
Miyatake Gaikotsu died on 28 July 1955.
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Miyatake Gaikotsu was a media historian, journalist and historian.
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Miyatake Gaikotsu was Japanese.
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