Charles Wirgman b. c.1832

Also known as Wakuman
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
English raised Japanese cartoonist and illustrator. It is asserted in some biographies that he worked in Australia during the mid 1850s.
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associate of
Felice Beato
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associate of
Ferdinand Georges Bigot
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associate of
Ernest Satow
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child of
Ferdinand Charles Wirgman
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sibling of
Theodore Blake Wirgman
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relative of
Theodore Wirgman
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sibling of
Francis Wirgman
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spouse of
Ozawa Kane
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associate of
John Smedley
1832
Artist (Draughtsman), Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect), Artist (Painter)

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References [<ExternalResource: Clark, John (2001), 'Charles Wirgman (1832?-1891)', chronology etc., in John Clark, Japanese Exchanges in Art 1850s-1930s: with Britain, Continental Europe, and the USA, Power Publications, Sydney, New South Wales, pp 5-88.>, <ExternalResource: Schodt, Frederik L. (1983), 'Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics', Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International (paperback 1986), pp 38-40.>, <ExternalResource: Rogala, Jozef (ed.), Yamashita, Hitomi (translator) (2004), 'The Genius of Mr. Punch: Life in Yokohama's Foreign Settlement: Charles Wirgman and the Japan Punch, 1862-1887', Yokohama, Japan: Yurindo Co. Ltd.>]