{{Short description|Japanese satirical magazine}} {{Italic title}} thumb|Front cover of ''Tokyo Puck'' magazine {{nihongo|'''''Tokyo Puck'''''|東京パック|Tōkyō pakku|lead=yes}} was a Japanese satirical comic magazine launched in 1905. It was based on the American ''Puck'' and featured multicolor illustrations that emphasized visual characteristics. It was the first publication of its kind in Japan to feature color illustrations.<ref>Frederik L. Schodt. (1983). ''Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics''. Tokyo: Kodansha International.</ref> The magazine existed until 1923 with an interruption between 1912 and 1919.

==History and profile== ''Tokyo Puck'' first published in 1905.<ref name=wei>{{cite book|author=I-Wei Wu|editor1=Hans Harder|editor2=Barbara Mittler|title=Asian Punches|date=2013|publisher=Springer|location=Berlin; Heidelberg|isbn=978-3-642-28606-3|page=368|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28607-0_12|chapter=Participating in Global Affairs: The Chinese Cartoon Monthly Shanghai Puck|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-28607-0_12}}</ref> Early on it was critical of the government and several issues were prohibited from being published,<ref>Gravett, Paul. ''Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics''. New York, NY: Collins Design, 2003.</ref> but after the High Treason Incident of 1910, it became more conservative and focused more on the changes in daily life.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Miyamoto Hirohito|author2=Jennifer Prough|title=The Formation of an Impure Genre—On the Origins of 'Manga|journal=Review of Japanese Culture and Society|date=December 2002|volume=14 |pages=39–48|jstor=42800200|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42800200}}</ref><ref name="Isao">Isao Shimizu. ''Manga Tanjō'' (Birth of Manga), {{ISBN|4-642-05475-8}}</ref>

The editor-in-chief was Kitazawa Rakuten, the first professional cartoonist in Japan and considered the founding father of modern manga. The magazine was translated into English and Chinese and sold in not only Japan but also in the Korean peninsula, Mainland China, and Taiwan. Kitazawa Rakuten worked for the magazine<ref name="Isao" /> until 1912 when it was temporarily folded.<ref name=wei/> It was restarted in 1919, but permanently closed down in 1923.<ref name=wei/>

Woodblock print artist Senpan Maekawa worked as an illustrator for the magazine early in his career.<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Alicia Volk|title=Maekawa Senpan, Shitōchō 偲糖帖 (Remembered Sweets, 1945)|url=https://www.academia.edu/29477642|journal=The World of the Japanese Illustrated Book: The Gerhard Pulverer Collection|date=17 October 2016|language=en}}</ref>

== Archives == Full collections of Tokyo ''Puck'' is at Fukkoku.net<ref>{{Cite web|title=東京パック|url=https://www.fukkoku.net/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E3%83%91%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF|website=電子復刻|access-date=2025-11-27|language=ja}}</ref> as well as Google Arts & Culture.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tokyo Puck|url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/tokyo-puck/-wGjwkm9lvOYQw|website=Google Arts & Culture|access-date=2025-11-27|language=en}}</ref> There also in the Ohio State University<ref>{{Cite web|title=Glimpses from the Vault: The Tokyo Puck (Tōkyō pakku) Originals and Reprints {{!}} Manga|url=https://library.osu.edu/site/manga/2024/02/07/glimpses-from-the-vault-the-tokyo-puck-tokyo-pakku-originals-and-reprints/|access-date=2025-11-27|language=en-US}}</ref>. and in the Guinness Book or World Records as the first Manga Magazine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/738098-first-manga-magazine|title=First manga magazine|website=Guinness Book of World Records}}</ref>

==See also== * ''Osaka Puck''

==References== {{Reflist}}

== Other links == [https://melikiancollection.com/artwork/tokyo-puck-satirical-newspaper-2599/ Th Melikian Collection]

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